Product Compare
AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Oct 2013 | Jun 2017 |
| Generation | Volcanic Islands | GeForce 10 Mobile |
| Type | Desktop | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 850 MHz | 1063 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1000 MHz | 1480 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 2002 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 6GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 192bit |
| Bandwidth | 288.0GB/s | 192.2GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 32 | |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 1280 |
| TMUs | 128 | 80 |
| ROPs | 32 | 48 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 48 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | 1536 KB |
| SM Count | 10 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 32.00 GPixel/s | 71.04 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 128.0 GTexel/s | 118.4 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 4.096 TFLOPS | 3.789 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 1024 GFLOPS | 118.4 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 59.20 GFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Tahiti | GP106 |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti XTL(215-0821065) | N17E-G1-A1 |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Pascal |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 16 nm |
| Transistors | 4.313 billion | 4.4 billion |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 250W | 80W |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | None |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.4 |
| CUDA | 6.1 | |