NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (2815MHz vs 1708MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT +31%

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

VS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 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

2310 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

16

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

136.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

68.32 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

4.372 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

136.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

107W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Navi 24

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

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

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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