Radeon R9 285X vs GeForce GTX 1060

Radeon R9 285X
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon R9 285X
GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 285X

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

80 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 285X .
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 285XGeForce GTX 1060
GPU NameTonga (Tonga XT)vsGP106 (GP106-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs16 nm
Die Size366 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistors5,000 millionvs4,400 million
Shaders2048vs1280
Compute Units32vs10
Core clock1002 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs128vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 285XGeForce GTX 1060
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 285XGeForce GTX 1060
TDP200 wattsvs120 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs10 Jul 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 285X
    32.10 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 285X
    128.30 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 285X
    264.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 285X
    4104.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better