NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 480

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 1333.98 significantly less expensive

$ 1668.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

2142 points

3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

44 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

45 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

4130 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

349.71 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

42415 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

44522 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

48947 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

51028 points

277% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

42732 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

49182 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

1266 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

199th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

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

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 480 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 480 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 480 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 480 at 150 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 Radeon RX 480 is better than the GeForce GTX 1060.