AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies.

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid

Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1265 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 1265 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 6 GB

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 specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Liquid	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
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	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	1480 MHz
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1265 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
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None
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
Technologies
CUDA