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    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs Radeon R9 280X

    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 15 Aug 2016
    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    Radeon R9 280X
    Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 8 Oct 2013
    Radeon R9 280X

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      128%
    • Radeon R9 280X
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

    170 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280X .
    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 28% higher average synthetic performance.
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider Radeon R9 280X

    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Mantle
    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

    The GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileRadeon R9 280X
    GPU NameGP106 (N17E-G1-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti XTL)
    Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size200 mm²vs352 mm²
    Transistors4,400 millionvs4,313 million
    Shaders1280vs2048
    Compute Units10vs32
    Core clock1404 MHzvs850 MHz
    ROPs48vs32
    TMUs80vs128

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileRadeon R9 280X
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit
    Memory Speed2002 MHz
    8008 MHz effective    		vs1500 MHz
    6000 MHz effective
    Memory Size6144 Mbvs3072 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileRadeon R9 280X
    TDP80 wattsvs250 watts
    Release Date15 Aug 2016vs8 Oct 2013

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      67.40 GP/s
    • Radeon R9 280X
      27.20 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      112.30 GT/s
    • Radeon R9 280X
      109.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      192.20 GB/s
    • Radeon R9 280X
      288.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      3594.00 GFLOPs
    • Radeon R9 280X
      3482.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      14100
    • Radeon R9 280X
      10960

    Points (higher is better)

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