GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which features clock speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units 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 RX Vega 56		21011 points
GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
	Difference: 8652 (70%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (75%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 222822 (113%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is quite a bit (about 115%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 138464 (115%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is the winner, but only just. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1696 (2%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.