GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs Radeon R9 295X2
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X |
| 380 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 295X2 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R9 295X2 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 295X2
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X | | Radeon R9 295X2 | |
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| GPU Name | GP104 () | vs | Vesuvius (Vesuvius XT) |
| Fab Process | 16 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 314 mm² | vs | 438 mm² |
| Transistors | 7,200 million | vs | 6,200 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 2816 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 44 |
| Core clock | 1506 MHz | vs | 1018 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 64 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 176 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X | | Radeon R9 295X2 | |
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| Memory Type | GDDR5X | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 512 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 1001 MHz
8008 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X | | Radeon R9 295X2 | |
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| TDP | 120 watts | vs | 500 watts |
| Release Date | UNRELEASED | vs | 29 Apr 2014 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better