NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1709MHz vs 1600MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +199%

13.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +81%

7078

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

332

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +123%

742

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Jun 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

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

160bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

40

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 XTX AIR

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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