NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 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
$ 269.99
$ 65.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points
10996 points
429% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS
225 FPS
181 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
163 FPS
129 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
205 FPS
177 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS
90 FPS
64 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points
3719 points
2% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points
1584.42 points
327% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points
90142 points
178% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points
115648 points
274% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
16 GiB
166% significantly more memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586
35th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 9000 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 9060 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 9060 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 9060 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 1060.

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