NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6400

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6400 4 GB, 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

1864 points

4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

42 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

36 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

16 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points

1932% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

162 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

302.98 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

33586 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

41105 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

1923 MHz

29% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

2321 MHz

56% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

50% significantly higher memory bandwidth

128 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

53 W

50% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

74.3 Gigapixels/s

4% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

111.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

6% slightly better floating point performance

3.57 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

66% significantly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly 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

225th of 597

219th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 6400 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6400 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in our tests.

The Radeon RX 6400 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 6400 also has a significantly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6400 has a significantly lower TDP at 53 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q at 80 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6400 over the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.