NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon Pro SSG

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and AMD Radeon Pro SSG videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
  • Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1440 MHz
  • Around 14% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • 2.9x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • 4.2x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1890 MHz
  • Around 30% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 14345 vs 11029
  • Around 30% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 14345 vs 11029
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 January 2018 vs 8 August 2017
Core clock speed 1506 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Boost clock speed 1709 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 350 Watt
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 1890 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14345 vs 11029
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14345 vs 11029

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro SSG

  • 2.8x more texture fill rate: 384.0 GTexel / s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
  • 3.2x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1280
  • 2.8x better floating-point performance: 12,288 gflops vs 4,375 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
Texture fill rate 384.0 GTexel / s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Pipelines 4096 vs 1280
Floating-point performance 12,288 gflops vs 4,375 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 16 nm
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 6 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro SSG

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14345
11029
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14345
11029
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 AMD Radeon Pro SSG
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14345 11029
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14345 11029
PassMark - G3D Mark 10972
PassMark - G2D Mark 588
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 170.923
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3178.443
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 16.732
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 173.59
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1231.051
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 7766
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 7766

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 AMD Radeon Pro SSG

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 5.0
Code name GP106 Vega 10
Launch date 5 January 2018 8 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $299 $6,999
Place in performance rating 73 158
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1709 MHz 1500 MHz
Core clock speed 1506 MHz 1440 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops 12,288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 1280 4096
Texture fill rate 136.7 GTexel / s 384.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 350 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 12,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 6x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 250 mm 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s 483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 2048 Bit
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz 1890 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 HBM2