AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Price

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$ 424.97

$ 289.00

$ 135.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7241 points

251% significantly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

147 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1515.19 points

432% significantly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

102988 points

203% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70085 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33939 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

131084 points

869% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points

202% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114437 points

252% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32433 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz

54% significantly higher core clock speed

1506 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz

51% significantly higher boost clock speed

1708 MHz

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

384 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W

120 W

91% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s

101% significantly higher pixel rate

81.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

413 Gigatexels/s

235% significantly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.21 TFLOPS

235% significantly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

122% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

122% 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

64th of 586

206th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March

2016 August

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 6700 XT vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6700 XT beats the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6700 XT has a significantly 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 6700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT at 230 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6700 XT is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.