NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 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 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

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

More VRAM (5GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +30%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +94%

3910

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

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

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

384bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

40

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 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

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 Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

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

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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