NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 14.00 slightly less expensive

$ 349.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

2605 points

25% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

56 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

40 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

48 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

4904 points

34% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

503.48 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

41242 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

48577 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

33781 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

56001 points

313% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

46502 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

53890 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

1607 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

8% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

172nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

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 RX 5500 XT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5500 XT beats the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 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 GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 XT at 130 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5500 XT over the GeForce GTX 1060.