NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 10 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 335.00
$ 283.79
$ 51.21 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points
5776 points
178% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS
116 FPS
72 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
87 FPS
53 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
103 FPS
76 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS
50 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points
81% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2007 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points
1351.36 points
264% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points
125070 points
824% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points
92543 points
185% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points
107859 points
248% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz
1941 MHz
13% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
10 GiB
66% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
45% significantly lower TDP
175 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586
86th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2021 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 6700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6700 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 6700 has a slightly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6700 has significantly more memory with 10 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 significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 at 175 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 6700 over the GeForce GTX 1060.

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