NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 225W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1905MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT +122%

9.754 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

Radeon RX 5700 XT +142%

9474

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

332

Radeon RX 5700 XT +238%

1124

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

Radeon RX 5700 XT +143%

39

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

Radeon RX 5700 XT +85%

74

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Radeon RX 5700 XT +122%

111

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

30

Radeon RX 5700 XT +96%

59

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

Radeon RX 5700 XT +109%

113

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

Radeon RX 5700 XT +94%

142

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Jul 2019

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1605 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1905 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

40

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1280 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.9 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

304.8 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

19.51 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.754 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

609.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

225W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Navi 10

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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