NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop, 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

10% slightly better overall score

1882 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

49 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

28 FPS

33 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

697.32 points

88% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

40962 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

37410 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

105% significantly higher core clock speed

832 MHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

208th of 597

218th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 March

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 RTX A500 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card is better than the RTX A500 Laptop in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 is faster than the RTX A500 Laptop.