AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1905MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT +122%

9.754 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5700 XT +142%

9474

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

Blender

Radeon RX 5700 XT +238%

1124

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

332

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +143%

39

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +85%

74

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +122%

111

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +96%

59

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

30

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +109%

113

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +94%

142

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Dec 2017

Navi

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1905 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

2560

Shading Units

1280

160

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

40

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

121.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

304.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

19.51 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

9.754 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

609.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

GP106

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

16 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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