AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 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 6600 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (2589MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6600 XT +142%

10.6 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6600 XT +144%

9579

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

Blender

Radeon RX 6600 XT +260%

1196

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

332

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +137%

38

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +80%

72

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +138%

119

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +93%

58

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

30

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +105%

111

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +97%

144

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

Radeon RX 6600 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Jul 2021

Release Date

Dec 2017

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1968 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2589 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

160bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

40

-

32

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

32 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

165.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

331.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

21.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

10.60 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

662.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

120W

450 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 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 23

GPU Name

GP106

Navi 23 XT (215-130000006)

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

16 nm

11.06 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

237 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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