NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1708MHz vs 1600MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +233%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

192bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

4096

72

TMUs

256

48

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Vega 10

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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