NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 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 263W)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2430MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800 XT +753%

37.32 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

430

Radeon RX 7800 XT +537%

2742

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

Radeon RX 7800 XT +833%

84

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

Radeon RX 7800 XT +370%

160

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

Radeon RX 7800 XT +386%

248

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon RX 7800 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1295 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2430 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

2438 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

624.1GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

60

1280

Shading Units

3840

80

TMUs

240

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

60

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

233.3 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

583.2 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

74.65 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.32 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1166 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Navi 32

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

5 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

28.1 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

346 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

263W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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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