AMD Radeon Pro W6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6800 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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.

AMD Radeon Pro W6800

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6800

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 38% higher core clock speed: 2075 MHz vs 1506 MHz
Around 47% higher boost clock speed: 2507 MHz vs 1709 MHz
4401.6x more texture fill rate: 601.7 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
3x more pipelines: 3840 vs 1280
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 16 nm
5.3x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 6 GB
Around 46% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 20988 vs 14345
Around 46% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 20988 vs 14345

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 Jun 2021 vs 5 January 2018
Core clock speed	2075 MHz vs 1506 MHz
Boost clock speed	2507 MHz vs 1709 MHz
Texture fill rate	601.7 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3840 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 16 nm
Maximum memory size	32 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20988 vs 14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20988 vs 14345

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 450 Watt
4x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 450 Watt
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6800
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

20988

14345

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

20988

14345

Name	AMD Radeon Pro W6800	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
PassMark - G2D Mark	936
PassMark - G3D Mark	19881
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20988	14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20988	14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357
Geekbench - OpenCL	131707

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro W6800	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Pascal
Code name	Navi 21	GP106
Launch date	8 Jun 2021	5 January 2018
Launch price (MSRP)	$2249	$299
Place in performance rating	108	72
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2507 MHz	1709 MHz
Compute units	60
Core clock speed	2075 MHz	1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1203 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	38.51 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	19.25 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3840	1280
Pixel fill rate	240.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	601.7 GTexel/s	136.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	450 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	26800 million	4,400 million
Floating-point performance		4,375 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Height	50 mm (2 inches)
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm (10.5 inches)	250 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
Width	120 mm (4.7 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)	8008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5