Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V
vs
Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V and the Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB and has 1152 texture shaders and 9 execution units.

Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G is based on AMD RX Vega 56, which has 3584 shaders and 56 execution units.
Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V GPU Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Based on AMD RX Vega 56
GP106-300-A1 GPU Chip Vega 10 XL
Pascal Architecture GCN 5
9 Streaming Multiprocessors 56
1152 Shader 3584
48 Render Output Units 64
72 Texture Units 256
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V has 3 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

The Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G can access 8 GB HBM2 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 410 GB/s.

3 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 Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V clocks in the base with up to 1.506 GHz. The base frequency of the Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G is 1.156 GHz.

1.506 GHz Base Clock 1.156 GHz
1.708 GHz Boost Clock 1.471 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V is 120 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin connector.

The Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G has a TDP of 210 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

120 W TDP 210 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 70 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 37 dB
-- Noise (Load) 49 dB

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 Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V.

The Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting 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
No VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V is -- long, -- high and -- wide.

The Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G is 280 mm long, 127 mm high and 40 mm wide.

-- Length 280 mm
-- Height 127 mm
-- Width 40 mm
-- Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1090 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V was released in Q3/2016 at a price of 199 $ (Reference).

The Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G was introduced in Q3/2017 at a price of 399 $ (Reference).

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Q3/2016 Release date Q3/2017
199 $ (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

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)

Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V
3 GB GDDR5
28 fps (avg)
Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G
8 GB HBM2
43 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V
3 GB GDDR5
45 fps (avg)
Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G
8 GB HBM2
80 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V Colorful GeForce GTX 1060-3G-V
3 GB GDDR5
65 fps (avg)
Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G
8 GB HBM2
112 fps (avg)

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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