AMD Radeon vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Compare AMD Radeon 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

658 points
2457 points
273% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

14 FPS
47 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
40 FPS
29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS
31 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS
33 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.40 points
377.89 points
327% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11765 points
36416 points
209% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

14652 points
37241 points
154% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18088 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
14587 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

28407 points
36494 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

210459 points
489% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
35697 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

298th of 586
180th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2016 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

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12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

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4.6

Radeon vs GeForce GTX 1060 6GB comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB beats the Radeon in gaming performance.

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

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