NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 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 160W)

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (2589MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6600 XT +142%

10.6 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

Radeon RX 6600 XT +144%

9579

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

332

Radeon RX 6600 XT +260%

1196

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

Radeon RX 6600 XT +137%

38

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

Radeon RX 6600 XT +80%

72

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Radeon RX 6600 XT +138%

119

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

30

Radeon RX 6600 XT +93%

58

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

Radeon RX 6600 XT +105%

111

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

Radeon RX 6600 XT +97%

144

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon RX 6600 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Jul 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1968 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2589 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

40

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

32

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1280 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

L3 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.7 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

331.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.21 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.60 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

662.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Navi 23

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 23 XT (215-130000006)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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