AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 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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Price

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$ 519.00

$ 399.00

$ 120.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

9568 points

289% significantly better overall score

2457 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

196 FPS

149 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

143 FPS

103 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

173 FPS

141 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1896.07 points

401% significantly higher Blender score

377.89 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

129800 points

789% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

14587 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

130322 points

257% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36416 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93163 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37241 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

176154 points

1107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

14587 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

130005 points

256% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

36494 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

133046 points

272% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

35697 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1815 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

1506 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2105 MHz

23% slightly higher boost clock speed

1709 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

166% significantly 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

512 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

120 W

108% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

202.1 Gigapixels/s

146% significantly higher pixel rate

82.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

505.2 Gigatexels/s

269% significantly higher texture rate

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.17 TFLOPS

300% significantly better floating point performance

4.04 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

200% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

200% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

41st of 586

180th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

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 6800 vs GeForce GTX 1060 6GB benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6800 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6800 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 Radeon RX 6800 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6800 has significantly more memory with 16 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 6GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6800 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.