Comparison of Radeon R9 M290X and GeForce GTX 1060

Attribute	GeForce GTX 1060 ×	Radeon R9 M290X ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2016	2014
Reference card	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 1.5 GHz 6 GB	-
GPU brand	Nvidia	AMD
GPU name	GP106	Neptune
Market	Desktop	Laptop
Clock speed (MHz)	1,544	850
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	1,759	900
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	GeForce GTX 1060	Radeon R9 M290X
Memory
Memory (MB)	6,144	4,096
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	192.2	153.6
Memory bus (bit)	192	256
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	2,002	1,200
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	8,008	4,800
Noise and power
TDP (W)	120	100
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	74.1	28.8
Render output processors	48	32
Texture mapping units	80	80
Shading units	1,280	1,280
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	3,953	2,304
Compute units	-	20
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	123.5	72
Benchmarks
Particle simulation (mInteraction/s)	1196.96	-
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) (frames/s)	8.68	-
Video composition (frames/s)	21.91	-
Bioshock Infinite	-	46.8
Battlefield 4	-	36.35
Face detection (mPixels/s)	119.24	54.52
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)	3358.86	3324.52
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0)	3717.62	2047.22
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	576.4	258.05
Thief	-	34
Ocean surface simulation (frames/s)	1766.73	1134.46