AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB, 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

5396 points

201% significantly better overall score

1789 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

30 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

25 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

191% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3292 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

181% significantly higher Blender score

347.28 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29934 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

32085 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

32446 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

29492 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

1480 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

28% slightly higher boost clock speed

1480 MHz

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

448 GB/s

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

80 W

181% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

71% significantly higher pixel rate

71.04 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

157% significantly higher texture rate

118.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

157% significantly better floating point performance

3.79 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

100% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

100% 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

93rd of 586

222nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q comparison

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

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5700 XT has a slightly 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 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, 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 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5700 XT over the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.