NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1789 points
1836 points
2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

37 FPS
45 FPS
9 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS
40 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points
3987 points
21% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29934 points
43067 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32085 points
48969 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points
43342 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points
44042 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz
56% significantly higher boost clock speed
947 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
49% significantly more memory
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
512 Bit
166% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s
320 GB/s
66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W
212% significantly lower TDP
250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s
11% slightly higher pixel rate
64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s
176 Gigatexels/s
48% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS
5.63 TFLOPS
48% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280
2816
120% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
176
120% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
64
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

227th of 604
222nd of 604

Family

The product line

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Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

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