Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Unknown Jan 2018
Generation Volcanic Islands GeForce 10
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 950 MHz 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 1000 MHz 1709 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 82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 128.0 GTexel/s 136.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.096 TFLOPS 4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1024 GFLOPS 136.7 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 68.36 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti GP106
GPU Variant Tahiti XTL(215-0821065) GP106-400-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 375W 120W
Suggested PSU 750 W 300 W
Outputs 6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 3x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
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