NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT, 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

50% significantly better overall score

1632 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

48 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

33 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

35 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

31356 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

36756 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

1074 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

39% slightly higher boost clock speed

1226 MHz

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

224 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

109% significantly higher pixel rate

39.23 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

137.3 Gigatexels/s

0.44% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS

4.39 TFLOPS

8% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1792

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

40% 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

183rd of 599

237th of 599

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

2019 March

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 RX 560 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 560 XT in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 560 XT at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is better than the Radeon RX 560 XT.