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    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs Radeon R9 290

    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 15 Aug 2016
    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    Radeon R9 290
    Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 5 Nov 2013
    Radeon R9 290

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      100%
    • Radeon R9 290
      109%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

    195 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290 .
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 290

    Around 9% higher average synthetic performance.
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    Radeon R9 290

    HWBench recommends Radeon R9 290

    The Radeon R9 290 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileRadeon R9 290
    GPU NameGP106 (N17E-G1-A1)vsHawaii (Hawaii PRO)
    Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size200 mm²vs438 mm²
    Transistors4,400 millionvs6,200 million
    Shaders1280vs2560
    Compute Units10vs40
    Core clock1404 MHzvs947 MHz
    ROPs48vs64
    TMUs80vs160

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileRadeon R9 290
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs512 bit
    Memory Speed2002 MHz
    8008 MHz effective    		vs1250 MHz
    5000 MHz effective
    Memory Size6144 Mbvs4096 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileRadeon R9 290
    TDP80 wattsvs275 watts
    Release Date15 Aug 2016vs5 Nov 2013

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      67.40 GP/s
    • Radeon R9 290
      60.60 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      112.30 GT/s
    • Radeon R9 290
      152.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      192.20 GB/s
    • Radeon R9 290
      320.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      3594.00 GFLOPs
    • Radeon R9 290
      4849.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      14100
    • Radeon R9 290
      15440

    Points (higher is better)

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