AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

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

2944 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1708MHz vs 1600MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +233%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Dec 2016

Radeon Pro

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

16GB

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

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Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

120W

700 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

GP104

Vega 10 XTX AIR

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

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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