NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 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

1789 points

9% slightly better overall score

1632 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

33 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

35 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

31356 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

36756 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

1074 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

20% 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

80 W

87% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

81% significantly higher pixel rate

39.23 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

137.3 Gigatexels/s

15% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

4.39 TFLOPS

15% 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

222nd of 586

232nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2019 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 560 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q beats the Radeon RX 560 XT in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 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 GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 560 XT at 150 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 GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q is better than the Radeon RX 560 XT.