NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon 530

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon 530 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

2077 points
918% significantly better overall score
204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS
38 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points
365% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6960 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points
291% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
8039 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points
410% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6343 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points
341% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
7006 points

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
49% significantly more memory
4 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586
428th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon 530 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card is better than the Radeon 530 in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 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 GeForce GTX 1060 over the Radeon 530.

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