AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 74% (2970MHz vs 1709MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 304W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+1012%
48.66 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
4.375 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+624%
30445
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
4203
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+663%
14633
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
1917
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Oct 2018
Navi IV
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1660 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
2970 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
644.6GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
10
4096
Shading Units
1280
256
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
48
128
Tensor Cores
-
64
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
64 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
380.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
760.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
97.32 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
48.66 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
1.521 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
304W
TDP
120W
700 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 48
GPU Name
GP104
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600315)
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
16 nm
53.9 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
357 mm²
Die Size
314 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
-
CUDA
6.1
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
