NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

250% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

154% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

318% significantly higher Blender score

88.64 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

269% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

251% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

10718 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

248% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

171% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11397 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

469% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

45 W

166% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

309th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon Vega 8 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 beats the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 is better than the Radeon Vega 8.