NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB and AMD Radeon R9 Fury 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 67% higher boost clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3.4x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 275 Watt
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
  • 16x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 12021 vs 10116
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 12021 vs 10116
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 5569 vs 3717
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 5569 vs 3717
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5034 vs 3356
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 5034 vs 3356
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 August 2016 vs 10 July 2015
Boost clock speed 1670 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 275 Watt
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12021 vs 10116
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12021 vs 10116
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5569 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5569 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5034 vs 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 5034 vs 3356

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Fury

  • Around 68% higher texture fill rate: 224.0 GTexel / s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
  • 2.8x more pipelines: 3584 vs 1280
  • Around 68% better floating-point performance: 7,168 gflops vs 4,275 gflops
Texture fill rate 224.0 GTexel / s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 3584 vs 1280
Floating-point performance 7,168 gflops vs 4,275 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 Fury

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
12021
10116
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
12021
10116
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5569
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5569
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5034
3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5034
3356
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB AMD Radeon R9 Fury
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12021 10116
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12021 10116
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5569 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5569 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5034 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 5034 3356
PassMark - G3D Mark 9592
PassMark - G2D Mark 796
Geekbench - OpenCL 53724
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 140.274
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3595.432
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 13.082
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 132.701
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 789.536
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4739

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB AMD Radeon R9 Fury

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 3.0
Code name GP106 Fiji
Launch date 15 August 2016 10 July 2015
Place in performance rating 276 277
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch price (MSRP) $549
Price now $399.99
Value for money (0-100) 35.98

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1670 MHz 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 1404 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,275 gflops 7,168 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1280 3584
Texture fill rate 133.6 GTexel / s 224.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 275 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 8,900 million
Compute units 56
Stream Processors 3584

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Supplementary power connectors ​2x 8-pin

API support

Vulkan
DirectX 12
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 4096 bit
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)