Vega 10 vs GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Primary Details

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name	GP106	Vega 10
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	27 June 2017 (6 years ago)	no data
Current price	$979	$12.39

Detailed Specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1280	4096
Core clock speed	1265 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1480 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	4,400 million	12,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	80 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	118.4	no data
Floating-point performance	3,789 gflops	no data

Form Factor & Compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB and Vega 10 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

Memory type	GDDR5	no data
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	no data
Memory bus width	192 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	192.2 GB/s	no data

API Compatibility

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

DirectX	12.0	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.0	6.7
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1
Vulkan	no data	1.3
CUDA	6.1	no data

Pros & Cons Summary

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Chip lithography

16 nm

14 nm

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