AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB, 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

584 points

2438 points

317% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

49 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

39 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

31 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

32 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

324.97 points

266% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points

33671 points

284% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points

36656 points

309% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

35111 points

277% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

33988 points

198% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1506 MHz

401% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

1709 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

166% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

68.36 Gigapixels/s

327% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

136.7 Gigatexels/s

113% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.05 TFLOPS

4.38 TFLOPS

113% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

1280

150% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

400% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

314th of 593

182nd of 593

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2017 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce GTX 1060 5GB specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB beats the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB over the Radeon Vega 8.