NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7900

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB 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

2457 points
108% significantly better overall score
1178 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
23 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
24 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

36416 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
32996 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
33694 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
31425 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
32351 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586
252nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July
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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 6GB vs Radeon HD 7900 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 7900 in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is better than the Radeon HD 7900.

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