GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 285, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 918 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1375 MHz on this card. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon R9 285		8500 points
	Difference: 3859 (45%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1060 is 12% faster than the Radeon R9 285 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 20608 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be a little bit (approximately 17%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17664 (17%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be quite a bit (approximately 146%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 285, and able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42912 (146%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.