NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 10 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

5776 points

222% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

116 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

87 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

103 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

50 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points

64% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2007 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

1351.36 points

289% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

92543 points

185% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

107859 points

265% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

1941 MHz

31% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

2450 MHz

65% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

10 GiB

66% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

320 GB/s

66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

118% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

156.8 Gigapixels/s

120% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

352.8 Gigatexels/s

197% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

11.29 TFLOPS

197% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

2304

79% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

79% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

222nd of 586

86th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2021 June

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 6700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6700 has a slightly 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 6700 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 6700 has significantly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 at 175 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 6700 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.