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

43 FPS
49 FPS
6 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

27 FPS
33 FPS
6 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

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points
697.32 points
88% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points
40962 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) 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

205th of 586
216th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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 RTX A500 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A500 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1060.

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