GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 3G
vs
MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 3G and the MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G OC, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 3G is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB and has 1152 texture shaders and 9 execution units.

MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G OC is based on AMD RX Vega 64, which has 4096 shaders and 64 execution units.
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 3G GPU MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G OC
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Based on AMD RX Vega 64
GP106-300-A1 GPU Chip Vega 10 XT
Pascal Architecture GCN 5
9 Streaming Multiprocessors 64
1152 Shader 4096
48 Render Output Units 64
72 Texture Units 256
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 3G has 3 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G OC can access 8 GB HBM2 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 484 GB/s.

3 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type HBM2
2.002 GHz Memory Clock 0.945 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 1.9 Gbps
192 GB/s Memory bandwidth 484 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 2048 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 3G clocks in the base with up to 1.531 GHz. The base frequency of the MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G OC is 1.272 GHz.

1.531 GHz Base Clock 1.272 GHz
1.771 GHz Boost Clock 1.575 GHz
1.75 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

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

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G OC has a TDP of 295 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

120 W TDP 295 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 OC 3G has a total of 1 Axial fans.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G OC has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
1 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 80 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 GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 3G.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G OC supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
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

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 3G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G OC 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 GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 3G is 169 mm long, 131 mm high and 37 mm wide.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G OC is 270 mm long, 110 mm high and 40 mm wide.

169 mm Length 270 mm
131 mm Height 110 mm
37 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1068 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 3G was released in Q3/2016 at a price of 199 $ (Reference).

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G OC was introduced in Q3/2017 at a price of 499 $ (Reference).

GV-N1060IXOC-3GD Part-no --
Q3/2016 Release date Q3/2017
199 $ (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

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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