AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

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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

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points
324.97 points
266% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points
33671 points
284% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points
36656 points
309% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points
35111 points
277% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) 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

32
80
150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
40
400% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

314th of 590
181st of 590

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
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

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