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

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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

Main Differences

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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (120W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +140%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56 +75%

6878

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +87%

30

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +42%

57

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +74%

87

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +73%

52

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

30

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +72%

93

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +71%

125

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Dec 2017

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

1709 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

5GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

160bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

3584

Shading Units

1280

224

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

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 Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GP106

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

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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