GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 280X, which comes with clock speeds of 850 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 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.

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GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
Radeon R9 280X		294 Sol/s
	Difference: 17 (6%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon R9 280X		8886 points
	Difference: 3473 (39%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 280X should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 91392 (46%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a small bit (approximately 11%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 280X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11680 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 45088 (166%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.