NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Price

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$ 289.00

$ 373.99 significantly less expensive

$ 662.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

15475 points

651% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS

326 FPS

284 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

216 FPS

182 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

295 FPS

269 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

127 FPS

97 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

2429.25 points

753% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

142590 points

327% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

157875 points

386% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

1800 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

2430 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

624 GB/s

224% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

119% significantly lower TDP

263 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

233 Gigapixels/s

184% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

583 Gigatexels/s

373% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

36.04 TFLOPS

815% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

8192

611% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

17th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

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 7800 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7800 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 7800 XT 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 7800 XT also has a slightly 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 7800 XT at 263 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 7800 XT is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.