Radeon R9 285 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB - video card comparison
Radeon R9 285
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Tonga
GP106
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2014
June 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1480 MHz
Core clock speed
918 MHz
1265 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,290 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
190 Watt
80 Watt
Texture fill rate
102.8
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
5.5 GB/s
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12.0
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.5
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
-