AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB 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 9060 XT 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 83% (3130MHz vs 1709MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (322.3GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB
+486%
25.64 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
4.375 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2025
Release Date
Dec 2017
Navi IV
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1700 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
3130 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
5GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
160bit
322.3GB/s
Bandwidth
160.2GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
132
SM Count
10
2048
Shading Units
1280
128
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
40
528
Tensor Cores
-
32
RT Cores
-
256 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1280 KB
32 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
200.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
68.36 GPixel/s
400.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
51.28 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
25.64 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
801.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
120W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
2x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 44
GPU Name
GP106
Navi 44 XT 8GB
GPU Variant
GP106-350-K3-A1
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
16 nm
29.7 billion
Transistors
4.4 billion
199 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
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
9.0
CUDA
6.1
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
