NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and AMD Radeon R9 280X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• Around 71% higher boost clock speed: 1708 MHz vs 1000 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
• 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 250 Watt
• Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9796 vs 6138
• Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 772 vs 675
• Around 29% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 115.073 vs 89.187
• Around 5% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 8.057 vs 7.656
• Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 10566 vs 9603
• Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 10566 vs 9603

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 280X

• Around 4% higher texture fill rate: 128.0 GTexel / s vs 123.0 GTexel / s
• Around 78% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1152
• Around 4% better floating-point performance: 4,096 gflops vs 3,935 gflops
• Around 8% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1434.496 vs 1325.07
• 2.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 87.459 vs 31.946
• Around 16% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 493.57 vs 425.709
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3338
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3338
• 15.1x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2351 vs 156

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 280X

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	9796 6138
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	772 675
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	115.073 89.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1325.07 1434.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8.057 7.656
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	31.946 87.459
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	425.709 493.57
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	10566 9603
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3697 3700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3338 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	10566 9603
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3697 3700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3338 3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	156 2351

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