AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6650 XT and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (2635MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (280.3GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 176W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6650 XT +174%

10.79 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6650 XT +156%

9891

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3849

Blender

Radeon RX 6650 XT +590%

1299

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

188

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +153%

38

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +165%

77

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

29

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +170%

119

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

44

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +120%

55

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

25

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +141%

111

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

46

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +134%

157

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

67

Radeon RX 6650 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Aug 2016

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2055 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2635 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

2190 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

280.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

2048

Shading Units

1152

128

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

48

-

32

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

32 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

168.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

337.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

21.59 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

10.79 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

674.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

176W

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 KXT (215-130000136)

GPU Variant

GP106-300-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

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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