NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1709MHz vs 1560MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT +64%

7.188 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1130 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.6 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.38 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.188 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

449.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 10

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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