NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon RX 460

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 460 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

154% significantly better overall score

816 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

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

17 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

105% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1768 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

17920 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21824 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

20340 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

22320 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

18277 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24052 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

56% significantly higher core clock speed

1090 MHz

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

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

278th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

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

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 460 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 460 in our tests.

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.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 addition, the Radeon RX 460 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 is better than the Radeon RX 460.