NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

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

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +199%

13.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4202

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +68%

7078

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

192bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

1280

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Vega 10

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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