NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 560

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 149.39

$ 185.61 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

151% significantly better overall score

825 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

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 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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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

98% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

185% significantly higher Blender score

130.09 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

21032 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

19493 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

23476 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

20226 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23100 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

1175 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

80 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

275th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

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 560 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 560 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 Radeon RX 560 has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 is better than the Radeon RX 560.