NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1709MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +6%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

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

32.00 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 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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