NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop) vs AMD FirePro W8100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop) and AMD FirePro W8100 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 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
• Around 83% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 824 MHz
• Around 1% higher texture fill rate: 133.6 GTexel / s vs 131.8 GTexel / s
• Around 1% better floating-point performance: 4,275 gflops vs 4,219 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
• Around 83% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 220 Watt
• Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 5000 MHz
• Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8160 vs 6812
• Around 20% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 111.55 vs 93.339
• Around 16% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 509.222 vs 440.107
• 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 12645 vs 5494
• 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 12645 vs 5494

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W8100

• 2x more pipelines: 2560 vs 1280
• Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
• Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 755 vs 444
• Around 12% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 34705 vs 31056
• Around 70% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 2333.922 vs 1371.266
• Around 4% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 8.816 vs 8.49
• 5.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 112.45 vs 19.803
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3699 vs 3654
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3699 vs 3654

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W8100

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	8160 6812
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	444 755
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	31056 34705
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	111.55 93.339
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1371.266 2333.922
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8.49 8.816
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	19.803 112.45
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	509.222 440.107
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12645 5494
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3654 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3359 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12645 5494
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3654 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3359 3349

Compare specifications (specs)