NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon RX 6600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 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

Lower TDP (120W vs 132W)

AMD Radeon RX 6600 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2491MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6600 +104%

8.928 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

Radeon RX 6600 +277%

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

Radeon RX 6600 +108%

71

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

Radeon RX 6600 +147%

126

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

28

Radeon RX 6600 +57%

44

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

52

Radeon RX 6600 +88%

98

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

Radeon RX 6600 +69%

127

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon RX 6600

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Oct 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

1626 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2491 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

L3 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

159.4 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

279.0 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

17.86 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.928 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

558.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

132W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

GP104

GPU Name

Navi 23

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 23 XL (215-130000016)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

314 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

6.5

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