AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 16 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 26 December 2017
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 16 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1600 MHz
2.9x more pipelines: 1280 vs 448
3.7x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3917 vs 1069
3.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 35108 vs 11203

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1709 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Pipelines	1280 vs 448
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3917 vs 1069
Geekbench - OpenCL	35108 vs 11203

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1069

3917

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

11203

35108

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069	3917
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203	35108
PassMark - G3D Mark		9056
PassMark - G2D Mark		611
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Pascal
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GP106
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	26 December 2017
Place in performance rating	1317	303
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	1709 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	16 nm
Pipelines	448	1280
Core clock speed		1506 MHz
Floating-point performance		4,375 gflops
Texture fill rate		136.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		120 Watt
Transistor count		4,400 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		250 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		5 GB
Memory bandwidth		160.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		160 Bit
Memory clock speed		8008 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5