NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 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

Lower TDP (120W vs 220W)

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT +355%

19.91 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi IV(RX 9000)

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

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

624.1GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

64

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

233.3 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

622.1 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

39.81 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.91 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

622.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

220W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Navi 48

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 48 XT

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

4 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

314 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

6.8

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