NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7900

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7900, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points
74% significantly better overall score
1178 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
23 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
32996 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points
0.73% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
33694 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
31425 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points
0.25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
32351 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586
252nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon HD 7900 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 7900 in gaming.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is better than the Radeon HD 7900.

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