NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5600

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 199.98

$ 135.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

3570 points

71% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

77 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

56 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

69 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

33 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

145% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1479 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

609.00 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

48650 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

37453 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

76653 points

466% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

62239 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

53743 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

51% significantly higher core clock speed

1130 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

Identical

6 GiB

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

135th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

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 5600 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5600 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 in our tests.

Our database shows that 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 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 5600 at 150 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 5600 over the GeForce GTX 1060.