NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

330% significantly better overall score

482 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

11 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

98% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1836 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23094 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

19900 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

20500 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

20126 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

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

330th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

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

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 560X specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 560X in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 560X has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 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 GeForce GTX 1060 is better than the Radeon RX 560X.