NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 Fury

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 1538.00 significantly less expensive

$ 1873.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

2550 points

22% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

60 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

41 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

51 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

4754 points

30% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

53458 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

67144 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

51276 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

61343 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

129% significantly lower TDP

275 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

173rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 Fury Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R9 Fury comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 Fury GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming.

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 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon R9 Fury at 275 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R9 Fury over the GeForce GTX 1060.