NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 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 7900 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (2394MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT +1076%

51.48 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

452

Radeon RX 7900 XT +763%

3905

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

Radeon RX 7900 XT +1033%

102

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

Radeon RX 7900 XT +502%

205

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

Radeon RX 7900 XT +486%

299

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon RX 7900 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

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

1387 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2394 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

320bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

800.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

84

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

5376

80

TMUs

336

48

ROPs

192

-

RT Cores

84

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

1536 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

80 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

459.6 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

804.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

103.0 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

51.48 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.609 TFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Navi 31

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XT (215-145000156)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

5 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

314 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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