GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 280, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 933 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1250 MHz on this particular card. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
Radeon R9 280		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 128 (70%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon R9 280		7961 points
	Difference: 4398 (55%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 280 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 43392 (22%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be just a bit (more or less 15%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15984 (15%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be a lot (more or less 142%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 280, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42432 (142%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.