GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs Radeon HD 8990 OEM

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Radeon HD 8990 OEM
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

255 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 8990 OEM .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBRadeon HD 8990 OEM
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-300-A1)vsMalta ()
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs365 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1152vs2048
Compute Units9vs32
Core clock1506 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs72vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBRadeon HD 8990 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBRadeon HD 8990 OEM
TDP120 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date18 Aug 2016vs24 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    72.30 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8990 OEM
    60.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    108.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8990 OEM
    244.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    192.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8990 OEM
    576.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    3470.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8990 OEM
    7782.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better