NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 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

166% significantly better overall score

779 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

19 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

142% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1500 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

55% significantly higher core clock speed

1100 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

2 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

115 W

4% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

283rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R7 260X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 260X in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R7 260X has a slightly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 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 GeForce GTX 1060 is faster than the Radeon R7 260X.