NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop) vs AMD FirePro W8000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop) and AMD FirePro W8000 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)

• Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• Around 67% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 900 MHz
• Around 33% higher texture fill rate: 133.6 GTexel / s vs 100.8 GTexel / s
• Around 33% better floating-point performance: 4,275 gflops vs 3,226 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
• 2.9x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 350 Watt
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
• Around 46% higher memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 5500 MHz
• Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8161 vs 4149
• Around 73% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 111.55 vs 64.628
• Around 32% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 509.222 vs 387.109
• Around 71% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 12645 vs 7400
• Around 71% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 12645 vs 7400

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W8000

• Around 40% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1280
• Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 489 vs 444
• 2.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 82941 vs 30868
• Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3717 vs 3654
• Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3717 vs 3654

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W8000

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	8161 4149
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	444 489
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	30868 82941
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	111.55 64.628
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	509.222 387.109
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12645 7400
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3654 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3359 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12645 7400
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3654 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3359 3357

Compare specifications (specs)