AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1480MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +111%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Jun 2017

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1063 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

896

Shading Units

1280

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GP106

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

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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