AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 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.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm

Launch date	7 August 2017 vs 25 December 2016
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 16 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Around 21% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1247 MHz
Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1708 MHz vs 1546 MHz
2.5x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 295 Watt
4.2x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1890 MHz

Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 1247 MHz
Boost clock speed	1708 MHz vs 1546 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 295 Watt
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 1890 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
PassMark - G3D Mark	14121
PassMark - G2D Mark	791
Geekbench - OpenCL	204168
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	195.478
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2129.009
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	14.889
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	129.271
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1328.033
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	14744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	14744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1669

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Pascal
Code name	Vega 10	GP104
Design	Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch date	7 August 2017	25 December 2016
Launch price (MSRP)	$499	$199
Place in performance rating	186	not rated
Price now	$449.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	41.07
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1546 MHz	1708 MHz
Compute units	64
Core clock speed	1247 MHz	1506 MHz
Floating-point performance	12.7 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	840 GFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	26.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.4 TFLOPs
Pipelines	8192
Pixel fill rate	98.90 GP/s
Render output units	64
Stream Processors	4096
Texture fill rate	395.80 GTexel/s
Texture Units	256
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	295 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	12,500 million	7,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	279 mm	250 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	483.8 GB/s
Memory bus width	2048 bit
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz	8008 MHz
Memory type	HBM2
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore