AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 7% higher core clock speed: 1605 MHz vs 1506 MHz
  • Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1905 MHz vs 1709 MHz
  • 2.2x more texture fill rate: 304.8 GT/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 14699 vs 14345
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 14699 vs 14345
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 July 2019 vs 5 January 2018
Core clock speed 1605 MHz vs 1506 MHz
Boost clock speed 1905 MHz vs 1709 MHz
Texture fill rate 304.8 GT/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14699 vs 14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14699 vs 14345

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

  • Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 225 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14699
14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14699
14345
Name AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
PassMark - G3D Mark 16667
PassMark - G2D Mark 927
Geekbench - OpenCL 77153
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 252.601
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3949.565
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 24.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 254.777
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1322.129
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14699 14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3369
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14699 14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3369
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 9486

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Essentials

Architecture RDNA Pascal
Code name Navi 10 GP106
Launch date 7 July 2019 5 January 2018
Launch price (MSRP) $400 $299
Place in performance rating 148 72
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1905 MHz 1709 MHz
Compute units 40
Core clock speed 1605 MHz 1506 MHz
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 19.51 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 9.75 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate 121.9 GP/s
Render output units 64
Stream Processors 2560
Texture fill rate 304.8 GT/s 136.7 GTexel / s
Texture Units 160
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 120 Watt
Transistor count 10.3 B 4,400 million
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm
Pipelines 1280

Video outputs and ports

DisplayPort support
HDMI
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 8-pin and 1x6 pin 1x 6-pin
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 250 mm

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_1)
Vulkan
OpenGL 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s 192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 Bit
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
TrueAudio
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready