AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 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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$ 629.99

$ 289.00

$ 340.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14121 points

586% significantly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

286 FPS

244 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS

175 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS

230 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points

770% significantly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

159528 points

1079% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

170008 points

400% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114610 points

237% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33939 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

208130 points

1438% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points

402% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points

427% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32433 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1825 MHz

21% 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

720 Gigatexels/s

485% significantly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.04 TFLOPS

485% significantly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

344% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

344% 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

24th of 586

206th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

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 6900 XT vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6900 XT beats the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6900 XT 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 6900 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 6900 XT at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6900 XT is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.