NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs AMD Radeon R5

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R5, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R5

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 45.99

$ 353.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2457 points

2308% significantly better overall score

102 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

647% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4869 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

621% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5160 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

600% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5213 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

603% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5075 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

652% significantly higher core clock speed

200 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

89% significantly higher boost clock speed

900 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

15 W

700% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

2605% significantly higher pixel rate

3.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

1026% significantly higher texture rate

12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

400% significantly more shading units

256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586

503rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

2017 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs Radeon R5 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB graphics card is better than the Radeon R5 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a significantly 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 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon R5 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB at 120 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 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is faster than the Radeon R5.