AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 80 Watt
  • Around 46% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 585 vs 401
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 November 2018 vs 27 June 2017
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 80 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 585 vs 401

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

  • 3.5x more core clock speed: 1063 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 1480 MHz vs 1190 MHz
  • 3.3x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 2400 MHz
  • Around 44% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 12767 vs 8870
  • Around 44% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 12767 vs 8870
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3712 vs 3586
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3712 vs 3586
  • Around 36% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 30399 vs 22421
  • Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7835 vs 4809
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1063 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed 1480 MHz vs 1190 MHz
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 2400 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12767 vs 8870
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12767 vs 8870
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3712 vs 3586
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3712 vs 3586
Geekbench - OpenCL 30399 vs 22421
PassMark - G3D Mark 7835 vs 4809

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8870
12767
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8870
12767
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3586
3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3586
3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
3359
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
22421
30399
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
585
401
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4809
7835
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8870 12767
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8870 12767
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3586 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3586 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 3359
Geekbench - OpenCL 22421 30399
PassMark - G2D Mark 585 401
PassMark - G3D Mark 4809 7835
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 147.271
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1681.162
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.754
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 98.592
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 416.14
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3316

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 Pascal
Code name Vega 12 GP106
Launch date 14 November 2018 27 June 2017
Place in performance rating 367 364
Type Workstation Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1190 MHz 1480 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 1063 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 80 Watt
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops
Pipelines 1280
Texture fill rate 118.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count 4,400 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Memory clock speed 2400 MHz 8008 MHz
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready