AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (2815MHz vs 1709MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +31%

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Unknown

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

64

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GP104

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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