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

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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

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
31356 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

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

80
112
40% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
49% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

182nd of 596
235th of 596

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
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

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