NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 0.99 slightly less expensive

$ 399.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2457 points

12665 points

415% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

267 FPS

220 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

178 FPS

138 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

245 FPS

214 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

104 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points

2098.98 points

455% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

127642 points

249% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

142477 points

299% 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

1709 MHz

2544 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

432 GB/s

124% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

104% significantly lower TDP

245 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

244 Gigapixels/s

197% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

550 Gigatexels/s

302% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS

18.02 TFLOPS

346% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

4096

220% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

216

169% 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

180th of 586

29th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

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 6GB vs Radeon RX 7700 XT benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7700 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 7700 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 7700 XT 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 7700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7700 XT at 245 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 7700 XT over the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.