NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 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 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

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 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +199%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

109.4 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

GP104

GPU Name

Vega 10

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

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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