AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

amd

Brand

16GB GDDR6

Memory

5120

Cores

512 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 6900 XT

$499.99 Oct 2020 View Details

$499.99

nvidia

Brand

6GB GDDR5

Memory

1280

Cores

192.2 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

N/A Jul 2016 View Details

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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

16GB GDDR6 300W $499.99 Oct 2020

Radeon RX 6900 XT

$999 • Oct 2020

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

$299 • Jul 2016

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

6GB GDDR5 120W N/A Jul 2016

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Memory Size	16 GB	6 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR5
TDP	300 W	120 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2250 MHz	1709 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	512 GB/s	192.2 GB/s
Process Size	7nm	16nm
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Pascal
Shading Units	5120	1280
RT Cores	80	N/A
TMUs	320	80
ROPs	128	48
Memory Bus	256-bit	192-bit
Memory Clock	2000 MHz	2002 MHz
Pixel Rate	288 GPixel/s	82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	512 GTexel/s	192.2 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	23.04 GFLOPS	4.375 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	1.50 MB
Die Size	520 mm²	200 mm²
Transistors	26800 Million	4400 Million
Required PSU	700 W	300 W
Power Connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.1
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

20261 (+396%)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

4085

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

124121 (+216%)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

39230

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

305.2 FPS (+459%)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

54.6 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

26744 (+165%)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

10080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Game Benchmarks Comparison (96 benchmarks)

Scars Above

7.9 2023 • Action, Adventure • Mad Head Games

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+260%)

AVG 252 FPS

MIN 221 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+274%)

AVG 176 FPS

MIN 160 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 47 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+291%)

AVG 90 FPS

MIN 81 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 23 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

Winner

Loser

King's Bounty II

8 2021 • Adventure, RPG, Strategy • Fulqrum Games

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+83%)

AVG 126 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 69 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+168%)

AVG 126 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 47 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+268%)

AVG 92 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

Winner

Loser

HUMANKIND

8.3 2021 • Strategy • AMPLITUDE Studios

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+225%)

AVG 156 FPS

MIN 132 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+253%)

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 107 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 36 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+285%)

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 17 FPS

Winner

Loser

The Forgotten City

8.5 2021 • Adventure, Indie, RPG • Modern Storyteller

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+204%)

AVG 216 FPS

MIN 157 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+263%)

AVG 174 FPS

MIN 152 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+252%)

AVG 88 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

Winner

Loser

The Ascent

8 2021 • Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG • Neon Giant

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+294%)

AVG 244 FPS

MIN 218 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+295%)

AVG 162 FPS

MIN 142 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+365%)

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 17 FPS

MIN 15 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+944%)

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 9 FPS

MIN 8 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+1120%)

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 5 FPS

MIN 4 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+867%)

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 3 FPS

MIN 2 FPS

Winner

Loser

Total War ROME REMASTERED

7.5 2021 • Strategy • Creative Assembly, Feral Interactive

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+256%)

AVG 153 FPS

MIN 126 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+282%)

AVG 130 FPS

MIN 113 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6900 XT (+287%)

AVG 89 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AVG 23 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Wins!

Based on 96 benchmarks across 30 games

126

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

+250.8%

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB