NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT 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 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (2250MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 XT +374%

20.74 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

452

Radeon RX 6800 XT +486%

2650

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

Radeon RX 6800 XT +700%

72

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

Radeon RX 6800 XT +294%

134

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

Radeon RX 6800 XT +268%

188

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

28

Radeon RX 6800 XT +271%

104

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

52

Radeon RX 6800 XT +244%

179

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

Radeon RX 6800 XT +165%

199

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon RX 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

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

1825 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

72

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

4608

80

TMUs

288

48

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

72

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

288.0 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

648.0 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

41.47 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.74 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1296 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 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

GP104

GPU Name

Navi 21

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XT (215-121000177)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

314 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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