GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX 3G
vs
ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX Vega 56


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX 3G is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (Pascal) and has 3 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

The ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX Vega 56 is based on the AMD RX Vega 56 (GCN 5) and has 8 GB HBM2 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 410 GB/s.

GPU

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX 3G has the GP106-300-A1 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Pascal architecture.

The ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX Vega 56 is based on the graphics chip Vega 10 XL, which comes from the GCN 5 architecture.
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX 3G GPU ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX Vega 56
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 graphics memory of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX 3G clocks at 2.002 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 8.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX Vega 56 is 1.6 Gbps and the clock speed is 0.800 GHz.

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 clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

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

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX 3G is powered by 1 x 6-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 120 W.

The ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX Vega 56 has 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 210 W.

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 GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX 3G is equipped with a total of 1 Axial main fans.

The ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX Vega 56 has 1 Radial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
1 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

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX 3G.

The ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX Vega 56 supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX 3G it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX Vega 56 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 can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

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

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX 3G is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX Vega 56 needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

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

Additional data

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX 3G has been manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers since Q3/2016.

The ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX Vega 56 came on the market in Q3/2017 and will have a structure width of 14 nanometers manufactured.

GV-N1060IX-3GD Part-no PG X RADEON RX VEGA 56 8G
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)

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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