GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking580not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency27.89no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameVega RenoirGP104
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)8 March 2018 (6 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 cores3841280
Core clock speed400 MHz1506 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1708 MHz
Number of transistorsno data7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rateno data136.6
Floating-point processing powerno data4.372 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data80

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data250 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data6 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2002 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.2 GB/s
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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 8 March 2018
Chip lithography 7 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 120 Watt

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has an age advantage of 1 year, a 128.6% more advanced lithography process, and 700% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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