GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon VII, which comes with core clock speeds of 1400 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 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 VII		27400 points
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		12185 points
	Difference: 15215 (125%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (146%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon VII, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 851968 (433%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is quite a bit (approximately 210%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 227568 (210%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon VII is quite a bit (approximately 24%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17312 (24%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.