NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XTX 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

Lower TDP (120W vs 330W)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2435MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XTX +469%

24.93 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon RX 6900 XTX

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

2075 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2435 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

80

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

5120

80

TMUs

320

64

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

80

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

311.7 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

779.2 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

49.87 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

24.93 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.558 TFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

330W

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 XTXH (215-121000247)

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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