NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 6400

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X AMD Radeon RX 6400

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6400 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (2321MHz vs 1709MHz)

Lower TDP (53W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +22%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6400

3.565 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +32%

430

Radeon RX 6400

325

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +12%

9

Radeon RX 6400

8

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +70%

34

Radeon RX 6400

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +45%

51

Radeon RX 6400

35

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +47%

28

Radeon RX 6400

19

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +44%

52

Radeon RX 6400

36

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +56%

75

Radeon RX 6400

48

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon RX 6400

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1923 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2321 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

12

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

74.27 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.130 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.565 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Navi 24

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XL (215-135000046)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

6 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

53W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

6.6

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