AMD Radeon RX 5600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5600 6 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 199.98

$ 199.02 significantly less expensive

$ 399.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3570 points

45% significantly better overall score

2457 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

77 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

56 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

69 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

Identical

33 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

609.00 points

61% significantly higher Blender score

377.89 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

48650 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36416 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37453 points

0.57% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37241 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

76653 points

425% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

14587 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

62239 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

36494 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53743 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

35697 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1130 MHz

1506 MHz

33% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz

1709 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

Identical

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s

49% significantly 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

99.84 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

82.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199.68 Gigatexels/s

46% significantly higher texture rate

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.39 TFLOPS

58% significantly better floating point performance

4.04 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

60% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

135th of 586

180th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2016 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5600 vs GeForce GTX 1060 6GB benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5600 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5600 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5600 is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.