NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 464.63 significantly less expensive

$ 863.63

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2457 points

24895 points

913% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

529 FPS

481 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

351 FPS

311 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

477 FPS

446 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

207 FPS

175 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points

4050.95 points

971% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

212685 points

482% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

238996 points

569% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

1855 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

2500 MHz

46% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

24 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

960 GB/s

399% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

195% significantly lower TDP

355 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

480 Gigapixels/s

485% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

960 Gigatexels/s

602% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS

61.42 TFLOPS

1421% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

6144

380% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

384

380% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586

3rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

2022 December

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 7900 XTX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX beats the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX 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 7900 XTX 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has significantly more memory with 24 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 7900 XTX at 355 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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