Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon Vega 8

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon Vega 8GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsGP106 (GP106-300-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs16 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs4,400 million
Shaders512vs1152
Compute Units8vs9
Core clock300 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs16vs48
TMUs32vs72

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs192 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
TDP65 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs18 Aug 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    108.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    3470.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better