GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which comes with core clock speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 3584 SPUs along with 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 3GB		12185 points
	Difference: 8826 (72%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (75%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 222822 (113%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is a lot (about 139%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 150512 (139%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is superior to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range 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 number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

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