AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, API support, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid

  • Around 41% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1063 MHz
  • Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1480 MHz
  • 3.5x more texture fill rate: 409.6 GTexel / s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
  • 3.2x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1280
  • 3.5x better floating-point performance: 13,107 gflops vs 3,789 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
  • 2.7x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 6 GB
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 1063 MHz
Boost clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1480 MHz
Texture fill rate 409.6 GTexel / s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 4096 vs 1280
Floating-point performance 13,107 gflops vs 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 16 nm
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 6 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

  • 4.7x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 375 Watt
  • 4.2x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1886 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 375 Watt
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 1886 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

Name AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q
PassMark - G3D Mark 7903
PassMark - G2D Mark 407
Geekbench - OpenCL 30239
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 147.271
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1681.162
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.754
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 98.592
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 416.14
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12767
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12767
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3316

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.4 Pascal
Code name Vega 10 GP106
Launch date 27 June 2017 27 June 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $1,499
Place in performance rating not rated 379
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1600 MHz 1480 MHz
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 1063 MHz
Floating-point performance 13,107 gflops 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 16 nm
Pipelines 4096 1280
Texture fill rate 409.6 GTexel / s 118.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 375 Watt 80 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin None
Laptop size large

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 482.8 GB / s 192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 2048 Bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1886 MHz 8008 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6
Vulkan

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready