GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and Radeon R9 280X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Radeon R9 280X
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10560
Radeon R9 280X
6012
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Radeon R9 280X
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GP106
Thaiti XTL
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
October 2013
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
4,096 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
128.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
288 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
6.1
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
+
AppAcceleration
-
+
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
+
LiquidVR
-
1
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
-
1
TrueAudio
-
+
UVD
-
+
VR Ready
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-