GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 RAM runs at a frequency of 1890 MHz on this specific card. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		21379 points
GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
	Difference: 9020 (73%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 298844 (152%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is much (about 194%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 233312 (194%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is superior to the GeForce GTX 1060, by far. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16160 (22%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.