AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 6800 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (2250MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 XT +374%

20.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6800 XT +397%

19441

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

Blender

Radeon RX 6800 XT +698%

2650

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

332

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +350%

72

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +235%

134

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +276%

188

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +246%

104

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

30

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +231%

179

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +172%

199

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

Radeon RX 6800 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Dec 2017

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

72

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

4608

Shading Units

1280

288

TMUs

80

128

ROPs

40

-

72

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

648.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

41.47 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

1296 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

120W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GP106

Navi 21 XT (215-121000177)

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

16 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

520 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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