AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon VII and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 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 - 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 VII

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon VII

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 1750 MHz vs 1670 MHz
3.2x more texture fill rate: 432.24 GT/s vs 133.6 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
2.7x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 6 GB

Launch date	7 February 2019 vs 15 August 2016
Boost clock speed	1750 MHz vs 1670 MHz
Texture fill rate	432.24 GT/s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3840 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 16 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 6 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 300 Watt
4x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 12021 vs 11724
Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 5569 vs 3717
Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5034 vs 3360
Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 12021 vs 11724
Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 5569 vs 3717
Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 5034 vs 3360

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1404 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	12021 vs 11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	5569 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5034 vs 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	12021 vs 11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	5569 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	5034 vs 3360

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon VII
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

11724

12021

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3717

5569

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3360

5034

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

11724

12021

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3717

5569

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3360

5034

Name	AMD Radeon VII	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
PassMark - G3D Mark	16692
PassMark - G2D Mark	785
Geekbench - OpenCL	89411
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	206.353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	4659.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	69.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	499.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11724	12021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717	5569
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3360	5034
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11724	12021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717	5569
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3360	5034
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	9291

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon VII	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	Pascal
Code name	Vega 20	GP106
Design	AMD Radeon 2nd generation Vega
GCN generation	5th Gen
Launch date	7 February 2019	15 August 2016
Launch price (MSRP)	$699
Place in performance rating	215	277
Price now	$699.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	32.74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1750 MHz	1670 MHz
Compute units	60
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	1404 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	3.46 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	27.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.8 TFLOPs
Pipelines	3840	1280
Pixel fill rate	115.26 GP/s
Stream Processors	3840
Texture fill rate	432.24 GT/s	133.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count	13,230 million	4,400 million
Floating-point performance		4,275 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort count	3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	305 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	750 W
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	1024 GB/s	192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	8008 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
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
CUDA