NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800M 12 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

4979 points

139% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

104 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

78 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

87 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

43 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

11742 points

222% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

1392.24 points

275% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

93784 points

189% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

55272 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

113721 points

740% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

87678 points

170% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

97983 points

216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

2300 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

20% slightly lower TDP

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

102nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

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 6800M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800M GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6800M 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6800M has significantly more memory with 12 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 slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800M at 145 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 6800M over the GeForce GTX 1060.