AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon VII NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 VII 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1750MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon VII +241%

13.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon VII

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Dec 2016

Vega II

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1400 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1020GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

9

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1152

240

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

112.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

420.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

26.88 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

13.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

3.360 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

GP104

Vega 20 XT

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

GCN 5.1

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

16 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

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 Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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