GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 280, which has a GPU core clock speed of 933 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 1792 SPUs, 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

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 280 should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be a bit (approximately 15%) better at AF 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 quite a bit (more or less 142%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 280, and will be able to handle higher 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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 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 get to the max fill rate.