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AMD Radeon Vega 8

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

GPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of AMD Radeon Vega 8 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB video cards based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

AMD Radeon Vega 8

Higher Boost Clock: Up to 2100 MHz, depending on processor (Up to 2100 MHz, depending on processor vs 1709MHz)
Newer Launch Date: January 2021 (January 2021 vs July 2016)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Larger Memory Size: 6GB (System Shared vs 6GB)
Higher Bandwidth: 192.2 GB/s (System Dependent vs 192.2 GB/s)
More Shading Units: 1280 (512 vs 1280)

Basic

AMD

Label Name

NVIDIA

January 2021

Launch Date

July 2016

Integrated

Platform

Desktop

Radeon Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000/7030)

Model Name

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Renoir / Lucienne / Cezanne / Barcelo / Barcelo-R

Generation

GeForce 10

300MHz

Base Clock

1506MHz

Up to 2100 MHz, depending on processor

Boost Clock

1709MHz

IGP

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Transistors

4,400 million

Compute Units

TMUs

Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

16 nm

Vega / GCN 5

Architecture

Pascal

Memory Specifications

System Shared

Memory Size

6GB

System Shared

Memory Type

GDDR5

System Shared

Memory Bus

The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.

192bit

SystemShared

Memory Clock

2002MHz

System Dependent

Bandwidth

Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.

192.2 GB/s

Display and Media

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.

82.03 GPixel/s

64.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.

136.7 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.

68.36 GFLOPS

128.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

136.7 GFLOPS

2.089 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

4.287 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

SM Count

Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.

512

Shading Units

The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.

1280

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1536KB

TDP

120W

1.2

Vulkan Version

Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.

1.3

2.1

OpenCL Version

3.0

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

CUDA

6.1

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

ROPs

The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

Suggested PSU

300W