GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon VII, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1400 MHz. The HBM2 memory is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 3840 SPUs along with 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 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII will be a lot (more or less 210%) more effective at anisotropic 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 should be much (about 24%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, and also will be capable of handling higher 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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

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