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GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1060 uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1506 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 2000 MHz on this specific model. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 280, which has GPU core speed of 933 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 1792 Stream Processors, 112 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation 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.

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 is a bit (about 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

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is a better choice, and very much so. (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.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1060 Radeon R9 280
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2016 March 2014
Code Name GP106-400 Tahiti Pro
Memory 6144 MB 3072 MB
Core Speed 1506 MHz 933 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 250 watts
Bandwidth 196608 MB/sec 240000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 120480 Mtexels/sec 104496 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72288 Mpixels/sec 29856 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1280 1792
Texture Mapping Units 80 112
Render Output Units 48 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 384-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4400 million 4313 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1060

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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