NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon RX 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 250W)

AMD Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (2105MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 +269%

16.17 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

Radeon RX 6800 +315%

16233

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

Radeon RX 6800 +306%

65

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

Radeon RX 6800 +192%

117

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Radeon RX 6800 +236%

168

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

30

Radeon RX 6800 +203%

91

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

Radeon RX 6800 +229%

178

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

Radeon RX 6800 +165%

194

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon RX 6800

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2105 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

60

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

3840

80

TMUs

240

40

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

60

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1280 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

202.1 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

505.2 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.33 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.17 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1010 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Navi 21

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

520 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

6.5

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