NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XTX 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 355W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2498MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +1303%

61.39 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +683%

30621

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

332

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +1309%

4680

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +693%

127

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +470%

228

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +520%

310

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Nov 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1929 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2498 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

160bit

Memory Bus

384bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

96

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

6144

80

TMUs

384

40

ROPs

192

-

RT Cores

96

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

1280 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

479.6 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

959.2 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

122.8 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

61.39 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.918 TFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

355W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Navi 31

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XTX (215-145000146)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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