NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 64.99 slightly less expensive

$ 399.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

12665 points

509% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

267 FPS

224 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

178 FPS

144 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

245 FPS

218 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

104 FPS

77 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3316 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

2098.98 points

465% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

127642 points

294% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

142477 points

360% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

1800 MHz

5% 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

104% significantly lower TDP

245 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

29th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

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 7700 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7700 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 7700 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7700 XT 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 significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7700 XT at 245 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7700 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 1060.