NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Price

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$ 289.00

$ 280.84

$ 8.16 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

5943 points

188% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS

126 FPS

84 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

89 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

110 FPS

84 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

52 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

1141.36 points

301% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13527 points

110648 points

717% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

87496 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

108282 points

233% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

2055 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

2635 MHz

54% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

280.3 GB/s

45% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

46% significantly lower TDP

176 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

168.6 Gigapixels/s

105% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

337.3 Gigatexels/s

174% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

10.79 TFLOPS

174% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

2048

77% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

77% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

82nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2022 May

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 6650 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6650 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6650 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6650 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6650 XT at 176 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6650 XT over the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.

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