NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 335.00

$ 414.99 significantly less expensive

$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

14445 points

595% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

292 FPS

249 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

213 FPS

178 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

260 FPS

233 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

124 FPS

98 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

4221 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

2747.99 points

640% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

224476 points

1558% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

176249 points

444% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

177326 points

473% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

1890 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

16 GiB

166% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

179% significantly lower TDP

335 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 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 6950 XT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6950 XT beats the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 6950 XT has a slightly 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, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 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 6950 XT at 335 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 1060.