GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 280, which features clock speeds of 933 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
Radeon R9 280		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 128 (70%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon R9 280		7961 points
	Difference: 4398 (55%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 280 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 43392 (22%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be a bit (about 15%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15984 (15%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be much (approximately 142%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R9 280, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42432 (142%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.