GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps
vs
GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 64 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps has 1280 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.86 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.77 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 64 8G has 4096 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.55 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 12.66 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 10 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 64 8G is based on the GCN 5 architecture and is equipped with 64 execution units.
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps GPU GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 64 8G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Based on AMD RX Vega 64
GP106-400-A1 GPU Chip Vega 10 XT
Pascal Architecture GCN 5
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 64
1280 Shader 4096
48 Render Output Units 64
80 Texture Units 256
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.257 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 64 8G has a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory and the memory clock is 0.945GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type HBM2
2.257 GHz Memory Clock 0.945 GHz
9.0 Gbps Memory Speed 1.9 Gbps
216 GB/s Memory bandwidth 484 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 2048 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps has a turbo clock of 1.860 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 64 8G is 1.546 GHz.

1.607 GHz Base Clock 1.247 GHz
1.860 GHz Boost Clock 1.546 GHz
1.84 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 64 8G is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

120 W TDP 295 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 64 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
3 x 80 mm Fan 1 1 x 70 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 64 8G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 64 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
GIGABYTE RGB Fusion LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

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

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 64 8G is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

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

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps was released in Q3/2016.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 64 8G published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

GV-N1060AORUS-6GD Part-no GV-RXVEGA64-8GD-B
Q3/2016 Release date Q3/2017
249 $ (Reference) Launch Price 499 $ (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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