NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon R7 450

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 450 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R7 450

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 149.99

$ 185.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

599% significantly better overall score

297 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

202% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10702 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

221% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9779 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10058 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

264% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8478 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

62% significantly higher core clock speed

1050 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

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

380th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

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

4.3

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R7 450 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 450 in our tests.

In our comparison, 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R7 450 has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 over the Radeon R7 450.