GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with core speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 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 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

Performance-wise, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should in theory be quite a bit superior to 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 should be much (more or less 194%) more effective at 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

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be a lot (more or less 22%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1060, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.