AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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AMD Radeon R9 285 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +32%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

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GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GP104

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

120W

450 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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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