AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

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

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (1708MHz vs 933MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +17%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Dec 2016

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

1708 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

1792

Shading Units

1152

112

TMUs

72

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

81.98 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 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

GP104-140-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

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