AMD Radeon 890M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Specifications of GPUs

GPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of the characteristics and performance of the AMD Radeon 890M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 video cards. This comparison will help you determine which one best suits your needs.

Basic

Label Name
AMD
NVIDIA
Launch Date
July 2024
January 2018
Platform
Integrated
Desktop
Model Name
Radeon 890M
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
Generation
Navi III IGP
GeForce 10
Base Clock
400 MHz
1506MHz
Boost Clock
2900 MHz
1709MHz
Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
1024
1280
SM Count
?
Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.
-
10
Transistors
25.39 billion
4,400 million
RT Cores
16
-
Compute Units
16
-
TMUs
?
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
64
80
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1536KB
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
4 nm
16 nm
Architecture
RDNA 3.0
Pascal
TDP
15W
120W

Memory Specifications

Memory Size
System Shared
6GB
Memory Type
System Shared
GDDR5
Memory Bus
?
The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
System Shared
192bit
Memory Clock
System Shared
2002MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
System Dependent
192.2 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
?
Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
92.80 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
?
Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
185.6 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.
23.76 TFLOPS
68.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
742.4 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
11.761 TFlops
4.287 TFlops

Miscellaneous

Vulkan Version
?
Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
1.3
1.3
OpenCL Version
2.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Shader Model
6.7
6.4
ROPs
?
The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
32
48
Suggested PSU
-
300W

Advantages

AMD Radeon 890M
Radeon 890M
  • Higher Boost Clock: 2900 MHz (2900 MHz vs 1709MHz)
  • Newer Launch Date: July 2024 (July 2024 vs January 2018)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
  • More Shading Units: 1280 (1024 vs 1280)
  • Larger Memory Size: 6GB (System Shared vs 6GB)
  • Higher Bandwidth: 192.2 GB/s (System Dependent vs 192.2 GB/s)

FP32 (float)

Radeon 890M
+174% 11.761 TFlops
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
4.287 TFlops

SiliconCat Rating

265
Ranks 265 among all GPU on our website
250
Ranks 250 among Desktop GPU on our website
531
Ranks 531 among all GPU on our website
Radeon 890M
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

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