Radeon R9 280 and GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison
Radeon R9 280
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
-
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
1709 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1506 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
136.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
256.3 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
+
1.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-