Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280X
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Aug 2016 | Oct 2013 |
| Generation | GeForce 10 | Volcanic Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1506 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1708 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 2002 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 3GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 192bit | 384bit |
| Bandwidth | 192.2GB/s | 288.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 9 | |
| Shading Units | 1152 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 72 | 128 |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 48 KB (per SM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 1536 KB | 768 KB |
| Compute Units | 32 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 81.98 GPixel/s | 32.00 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 123.0 GTexel/s | 128.0 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 61.49 GFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 3.935 TFLOPS | 4.096 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 123.0 GFLOPS | 1024 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GP106 | Tahiti |
| GPU Variant | GP106-300-A1 | Tahiti XTL(215-0821065) |
| Architecture | Pascal | GCN 1.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 16 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 4.4 billion | 4.313 billion |
| Die Size | 200 mm² | 352 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 120W | 250W |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (11_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 6.1 | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 5.1 |