ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming
vs
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 3GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming and the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 3GB, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming is based on the AMD RX Vega 56 and has 3584 texture shaders and 56 execution units.

EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 3GB is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, which has 1152 shaders and 9 execution units.
ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming GPU EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 3GB
AMD RX Vega 56 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Vega 10 XL GPU Chip GP106-300-A1
GCN 5 Architecture Pascal
56 Streaming Multiprocessors 9
3584 Shader 1152
64 Render Output Units 48
256 Texture Units 72
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type HBM2 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 410 GB/s.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 3GB can access 3 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 3 GB
HBM2 Memory Type GDDR5
0.800 GHz Memory Clock 2.002 GHz
1.6 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
410 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
2048 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming clocks in the base with up to 1.297 GHz. The base frequency of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 3GB is 1.607 GHz.

1.297 GHz Base Clock 1.607 GHz
1.573 GHz Boost Clock 1.835 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming is 300 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 3GB has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

300 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 3GB has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 3GB supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
-- HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 3GB is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
ASUS Aura Sync LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 No
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming is 298 mm long, 139 mm high and 53 mm wide.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 3GB is 267 mm long, 111 mm high and -- wide.

298 mm Length 267 mm
139 mm Height 111 mm
53 mm Width --
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming was released in Q3/2017 at a price of 399 $ (Reference).

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 3GB was introduced in Q3/2016 at a price of 199 $ (Reference).

AREZ-STRIX-RXVEGA56-O8G-GAMING Part-no 03G-P4-6567-KR
Q3/2017 Release date Q3/2016
399 $ (Reference) Launch Price 199 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 16 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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