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AMD Radeon 8060S vs GeForce GTX 1060

Radeon 8060S
VS
GeForce GTX 1060
AMD Radeon 8060S
Strix Halo
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060
GP106

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 8060S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 8 years and 7 months older GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB that utilizes 10 pipelines and 1280 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1060 over Radeon 8060S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8060S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • 3.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (14.8 vs 4.4 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 2.3x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 63 vs 27 FPS
  • Ray-tracing support with 40 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 2.4x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (93K vs 39K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (2560 vs 1280)
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1060
  • Includes 6 GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 8060S
vs
GTX 1060

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
135
79
62
40
68
37
29
16
The Witcher 3
124
104
70
37
54
40
26
13
Counter-Strike 2
195
137
95
50
96
63
42
18
Far Cry 6
108
95
69
40
50
45
33
15
Hogwarts Legacy
74
59
46
20
32
22
18
9
CoD: Modern Warfare III
97
90
60
37
38
32
22
13
Ghost of Tsushima
80
65
43
25
29
20
16
9
Cyberpunk 2077
75
65
39
17
30
26
19
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider
132
116
79
37
57
49
34
18
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 50
1080p Ultra 90 37
1440p Ultra 63 27
4K Ultra 34 13
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Radeon 8060S +141%
9837
GTX 1060
4085
Time Spy 10038 4203
Solar Bay 47180 11278
Port Royal 5546 844
Fire Strike 26807 13132
Wild Life Extreme 19262 8510
Night Raid 101008 54686
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 8060S +138%
93515
GTX 1060
39230
Background Blur 232.1 img/sec 100.2 img/sec
Face Detection 122.5 img/sec 48.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.92 Gpixels/sec 1.54 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.07 Gpixels/sec 2.25 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.49 Gpixels/sec 2.58 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.08 Gpixels/sec 0.25 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 396.3 Gpixels/sec 136.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13016.5 FPS 4220.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
Radeon 8060S +80%
18072
GTX 1060
10026
G2D Mark 1170 737
DirectX 11 157 FPS 72 FPS
DirectX 12 84 FPS 37 FPS
GPU Compute 9041 Ops/s 4246 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1290 & 48280 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 8060S +259%
1349.35
GTX 1060
375.82
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 113 & 936 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
Radeon 8060S +243%
22565
GTX 1060
6580
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 8060S +353%
30098
GTX 1060
6649
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 8060S +277%
18100
GTX 1060
4804
Image Classification (SP) 11176 1462
Image Segmentation (HP) 14027 3872
Image Super Resolution (Q) 27198 8136
Face Detection (HP) 40613 6356
Pose Estimation (Q) 92878 33181
Text Classification (SP) 4158 1806
Machine Translation (HP) 6473 3149
Object Detection (SP) 7431 2096
Depth Estimation (Q) 41825 10515
Style Transfer (SP) 190221 67831
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8060S and GeForce GTX 1060

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 July 19, 2016
Launch price (MSRP) - $299
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Pascal
GPU Codename Strix Halo GP106
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop -
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 or above - Intel Core i7 7700 or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 392
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 388
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395		 -
Laptop GPU ranking (#24th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#83rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1709 MHz
Shading Units 2560 1280
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 10
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 40 No
L1 Cache - 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1536KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 186 GPixel/s 82 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 464 GTexel/s 137 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8060S +236%
14.8 TFLOPS
GTX 1060
4.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 55 W 120 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 16 nm
Die Size 308 mm² 200 mm²
Transistor Count - 4 billion
Transistor Density - 20 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared GDDR5
Memory Size - 6 GB
Memory Clock - 2002 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 8000 Mbps
Bus - 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
Radeon 8060S
n/a
GTX 1060
192.2 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA No 6.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1a 1.4a
Further details
Notes on GTX 1060:
    - There is also 3GB memory version, which is about 10% slower.

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