NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

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

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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 60.99 slightly less expensive

$ 395.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

4311 points

107% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

89 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

64 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

78 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

37 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

7692 points

111% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

619.96 points

67% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

56432 points

317% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

57968 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

48131 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

80618 points

495% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

65528 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

77765 points

151% 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

116th 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 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming.

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, 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 XT 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 5600 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 1060.