AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 2014
Aug 2016
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
2002 MHz
Base Clock
-
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1708 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
192.2GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
1152
TMUs
112
72
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1536 KB
SM Count
-
9

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.38 GPixel/s
81.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
102.8 GTexel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
3.290 TFLOPS
61.49 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.290 TFLOPS
3.935 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
205.6 GFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tonga
GP106
GPU Variant
Tonga PRO(215-0851128)
GP106-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 3.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
5 billion
4.4 billion
Die Size
366 mm²
200 mm²

Board Design

TDP
190W
120W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
6.4
CUDA
-
6.1

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
-
3,863
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
1,771
OctaneBench
-
76
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
29
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
44
Blender
-
188