AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 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 7900 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (2394MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7900 XT +1076%

51.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7900 XT +584%

26739

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3909

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 7900 XT +537%

102

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 7900 XT +412%

205

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

40

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 7900 XT +498%

299

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Radeon RX 7900 XT

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GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2022

Release Date

Dec 2017

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1387 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2394 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

160bit

800.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

84

Compute Units

-

5376

Shading Units

1280

336

TMUs

80

192

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

Theoretical Performance

459.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

804.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

103.0 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

51.48 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

1.609 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 31

GPU Name

GP106

Navi 31 XT (215-145000156)

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

16 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

120W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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