NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (1709MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +30%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 2x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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