AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 399.00

$ 1269.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

2457 points

14% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

47 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

40 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

33 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

377.89 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

42415 points

190% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

14587 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36416 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37241 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

51028 points

249% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

14587 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

36494 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

35697 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

1506 MHz

18% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

1709 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

82.03 Gigapixels/s

102% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

33% slightly higher texture rate

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

44% significantly better floating point performance

4.04 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

79% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

79% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586

180th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2016 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce GTX 1060 6GB benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB beats the Radeon RX 480 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 480 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 480 at 150 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 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is better than the Radeon RX 480.