Radeon RX 6700 XT vs GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 51% (2581MHz vs 1709MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 230W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+201%
13210
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
4375
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+204%
12804
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
4203
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+210%
5957
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
1917
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+477%
52
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+200%
96
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+184%
142
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
50
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+181%
76
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
27
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+188%
144
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
50
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+160%
193
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
74
Graphics Card
Mar 2021
Release Date
Jul 2016
Navi II
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2321 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
2581 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
10
2560
Shading Units
1280
160
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
48
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
96 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
165.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
413.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
26.43 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
13.21 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
825.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
230W
TDP
120W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 22
GPU Name
GP106
Navi 22 XT
(215-127000006)
GPU Variant
GP106-400-A1
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
16 nm
17.2 billion
Transistors
4.4 billion
335 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.5
Shader Model
6.4