AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

Price

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$ 488.33

$ 335.00

$ 153.33 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

159% significantly better overall score

2077 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

43 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

34 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

27 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

163% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3636 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

164% significantly higher Blender score

370.89 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

68311 points

404% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

13531 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

32388 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

31476 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

94209 points

596% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

13531 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

32365 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

183% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

30916 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

1708 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

120 W

87% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

93rd of 586

205th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

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

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce GTX 1060 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming.

In our comparison, 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 RX 5700 XT 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5700 XT is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060.