Radeon Vega 7 vs GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated532
Place by popularitynot in top-10019
Power efficiencyno data11.39
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGP104Cezanne
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data13 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1280448
Core clock speed1506 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1709 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate136.753.20
Floating-point processing power4.375 TFLOPS1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs648
TMUs8028

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length250 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5XSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1001 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth256.3 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.1
Vulkan1.31.2
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 16 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 45 Watt

Vega 7 has a 128.6% more advanced lithography process, and 166.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and Radeon Vega 7. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X is a desktop card while Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
AMD Radeon Vega 7
Radeon Vega 7

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