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

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1709MHz vs 1600MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +199%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Unknown

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

1709 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5X

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

4096

Shading Units

1280

256

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 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

GP104-150-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

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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