AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 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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$ 659.00

$ 289.00

$ 370.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11265 points

447% significantly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

231 FPS

189 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

167 FPS

134 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

204 FPS

177 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

97 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2414.65 points

748% significantly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

150488 points

1012% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

157812 points

364% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

100571 points

196% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33939 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

200077 points

1379% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

154801 points

363% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

157877 points

386% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32433 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2015 MHz

33% slightly higher core clock speed

1506 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz

31% slightly higher boost clock speed

1708 MHz

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

300 W

120 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s

251% significantly higher pixel rate

81.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

648 Gigatexels/s

426% significantly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.74 TFLOPS

427% significantly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4608

300% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

288

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

33rd of 586

206th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

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 6800 XT vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in our tests.

The Radeon RX 6800 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 6800 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6800 XT is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.