Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
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)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
+30%
4375
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
2009
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
+109%
4203
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Oct 2018
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
10
1792
Shading Units
1280
112
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
120W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GP104
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
