AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (2815MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (107W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +46%

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Dec 2016

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

9

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1152

64

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GP104

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

107W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-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

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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