NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon VII

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

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AMD Radeon VII

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 610.00 significantly less expensive

$ 945.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

6138 points

195% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

107 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

100 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

106 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

56 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

9129 points

151% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

817.47 points

120% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

68286 points

404% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

86533 points

167% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

77122 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

77386 points

471% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

92086 points

184% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

91729 points

196% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

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

150% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

HBM2

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 VII specs and performance

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 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 VII 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 VII at 300 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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