NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1709MHz vs 1471MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +140%

10.54 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

Radeon RX Vega 56 +75%

6878

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

Radeon RX Vega 56 +87%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

Radeon RX Vega 56 +42%

57

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Radeon RX Vega 56 +74%

87

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

30

Radeon RX Vega 56 +73%

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

Radeon RX Vega 56 +72%

93

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

Radeon RX Vega 56 +71%

125

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

160bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

40

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

210W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GP106

GPU Name

Vega 10

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

200 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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