NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 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

3023 points

68% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

64 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

46 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

56 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

26 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points

4965 points

50% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

422.78 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29934 points

52512 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32085 points

39991 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

50916 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

59288 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

2310 MHz

56% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

2815 MHz

90% 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

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

144 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

33% slightly lower TDP

107 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

90.1 Gigapixels/s

26% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

180.2 Gigatexels/s

52% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

5.77 TFLOPS

52% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

25% slightly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% 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

154th of 586

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 6500 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, 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 GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.