AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
  • 591.7x more texture fill rate: 80.88 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
Launch date 1 February 2018 vs 26 December 2017
Texture fill rate 80.88 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 16 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

  • Around 62% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 931 MHz
  • Around 69% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1011 MHz
  • Around 25% higher maximum memory size: 5 GB vs 4 GB
  • 11.4x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)
  • Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 611 vs 370
  • Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9056 vs 4769
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1506 MHz vs 931 MHz
Boost clock speed 1709 MHz vs 1011 MHz
Maximum memory size 5 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 611 vs 370
PassMark - G3D Mark 9056 vs 4769

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
370
611
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4769
9056
Name AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark 370 611
PassMark - G3D Mark 4769 9056
Geekbench - OpenCL 35108
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10818
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3417
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10818
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3417
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3917

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
Code name Polaris 22 GP106
Launch date 1 February 2018 26 December 2017
Place in performance rating 301 303
Type Mobile workstation Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1011 MHz 1709 MHz
Compute performance 20
Core clock speed 931 MHz 1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 161.8 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 2.588 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 2.588 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1280 1280
Pixel fill rate 32.35 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 80.88 GTexel/s 136.7 GTexel / s
Texture Units 65 Watt
Transistor count 5000 million 4,400 million
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 250 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.3
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 5 GB
Memory bandwidth 179.2 GB/s 160.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 1024 bit 160 Bit
Memory clock speed 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective) 8008 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)