AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon R9 280X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

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

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1708MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 +6%

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP104

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

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

Board Design

250W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x 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 Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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