AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Unknown
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
950 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
375W
80W
Suggested PSU
750 W
-
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
3x 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