NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 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

10978 points

513% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

226 FPS

189 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

162 FPS

132 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

205 FPS

181 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

90 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points

3719 points

12% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

1584.42 points

356% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

90142 points

177% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

115648 points

292% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

3130 MHz

111% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

16 GiB

166% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

320 GB/s

66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

200.3 Gigapixels/s

181% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

25.6 TFLOPS

575% significantly better floating point performance

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

60% 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

225th of 597

36th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 9060 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 9060 XT has significantly more memory with 16 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 9060 XT over the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.