NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M 4 GB, 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

5% slightly better overall score

1956 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS

59 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

40 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

51 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

385.01 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

39238 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

46114 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

2000 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

2400 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

50% significantly higher memory bandwidth

128 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

50 W

139% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

6% slightly higher pixel rate

76.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

155.7 Gigatexels/s

26% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

4.98 TFLOPS

26% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

12% slightly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

12% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

212th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 6500M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB beats the Radeon RX 6500M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6500M has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6500M also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500M has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB over the Radeon RX 6500M.