NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1040 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +603%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

30

1280

Shading Units

240

80

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

236W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GT200

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

65 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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