AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XTX and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2435MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 330W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6900 XTX +469%

24.93 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XTX

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GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2075 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2435 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

80

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

1280

320

TMUs

80

128

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

311.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

779.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

49.87 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

24.93 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

1.558 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GP104

Navi 21 XTXH (215-121000247)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

16 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

330W

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 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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