ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
vs
ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and the ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and has 1280 texture shaders and 10 execution units.

ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming is based on AMD RX Vega 56, which has 3584 shaders and 56 execution units.
ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GPU ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Based on AMD RX Vega 56
GP106-400-A1 GPU Chip Vega 10 XL
Pascal Architecture GCN 5
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 56
1280 Shader 3584
48 Render Output Units 64
80 Texture Units 256
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

The ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming can access 8 GB HBM2 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 410 GB/s.

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

Clock Speeds

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB clocks in the base with up to 1.506 GHz. The base frequency of the ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming is 1.297 GHz.

1.506 GHz Base Clock 1.297 GHz
1.708 GHz Boost Clock 1.573 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is 120 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin connector.

The ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming has a TDP of 300 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

120 W TDP 300 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 3 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 Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.

The ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 56 OC Gaming is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

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
No VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is 242 mm long, 130 mm high and 43 mm wide.

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

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

Additional data

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB was released in Q3/2016 at a price of 249 $ (Reference).

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

DUAL-GTX1060-6G Part-no ROG-STRIX-RXVEGA56-O8G-GAMING
Q3/2016 Release date Q3/2017
249 $ (Reference) Launch Price 399 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 14 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

Port Royal (Raytracing)

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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