AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1708MHz vs 1471MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +167%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Dec 2016

Vega

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

192bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

9

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1152

224

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GP104

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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