AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 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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$ 424.97

$ 399.00

$ 25.97 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7241 points

194% significantly better overall score

2457 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

147 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1515.19 points

300% significantly higher Blender score

377.89 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

102988 points

182% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36416 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70085 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37241 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

131084 points

798% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

14587 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points

176% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

36494 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114437 points

220% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

35697 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

1709 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

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

82.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

413 Gigatexels/s

202% significantly higher texture rate

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.21 TFLOPS

227% significantly better floating point performance

4.04 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

64th of 586

180th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March

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 6700 XT vs GeForce GTX 1060 6GB comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6700 XT has a significantly 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 Radeon RX 6700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 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 significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT at 230 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 6700 XT over the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.