AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1708MHz vs 1546MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 64 +221%

12.66 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 64 +95%

7522

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3849

Blender

Radeon RX Vega 64 +251%

660

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

188

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 64 +106%

31

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 64 +113%

62

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

29

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 64 +109%

92

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

44

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 64 +128%

57

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

25

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 64 +106%

95

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

46

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 64 +92%

129

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

67

Radeon RX Vega 64

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Aug 2016

Vega

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1247 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1546 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

192bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

4096

Shading Units

1152

256

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

98.94 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

395.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

25.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

12.66 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

791.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

295W

TDP

120W

600 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 XT (215-0894200)

GPU Variant

GP106-300-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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs AMD Radeon HD 7990

2

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

3

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

4

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

5

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

6

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

7

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

8

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

9

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

10

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU