GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which comes with GPU core speed of 1156 MHz, and 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM set to run at 1600 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also features 3584 Stream Processors, 224 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX Vega 56 is 113% faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will be quite a bit (about 115%) better at anisotropic 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

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be a little bit (more or less 2%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 1060, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.