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GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1060 comes with a core clock speed of 1506 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 16 nm design. It is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which comes with GPU core speed of 1825 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 4608 SPUs, 288 Texture Address Units, and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 120 Watts
Radeon RX 6800 XT 300 Watts
Difference: 180 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6800 XT will be 167% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT 524288 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 196608 MB/sec
Difference: 327680 (167%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT should be much (more or less 336%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT 525600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 120480 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 405120 (336%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT 233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 72288 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 161312 (223%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1060 Radeon RX 6800 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2016 November 2020
Code Name GP106-400 Navi 21
Memory 6144 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 1506 MHz 1825 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 4000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 196608 MB/sec 524288 MB/sec
Texel Rate 120480 Mtexels/sec 525600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72288 Mpixels/sec 233600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1280 4608
Texture Mapping Units 80 288
Render Output Units 48 128
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 7 nm
Transistors 4400 million 26800 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1060

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Radeon RX 6800 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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