NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs AMD Radeon RX Vega

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs AMD Radeon RX Vega, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 289.00
$ 210.95 significantly less expensive
$ 499.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points
4692 points
127% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS
90 FPS
48 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
78 FPS
45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
89 FPS
63 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS
42 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points
770.19 points
170% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points
77618 points
128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points
70183 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points
77896 points
133% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points
78175 points
141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586
109th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX Vega specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX Vega graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in our tests.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX Vega is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.

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