AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2014
Mar 2018
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
827 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1708 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
192.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
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Shading Units
1792
1280
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1536 KB
SM Count
—
10
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
81.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
136.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
4.372 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
136.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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68.32 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GP104
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
GP104-150-KA-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
120W
Suggested PSU
550 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
—
6.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.