Radeon RX 6700 XT vs GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Radeon RX 6700 XT
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon RX 6700 XT
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6700 XT

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Infinity Cache allows to deliver up to 3.25x the effective memory bandwidth
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 6700 XT

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 6700 XT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6700 XTGeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
GPU NameNavi 22 (Navi 22 XT)vsGP106 (GP106-300-A1)
Fab Process7 nmvs16 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs4,400 million
Shaders2560vs1152
Compute Units40vs9
Core clock1489 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs64vs48
TMUs192vs72

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6700 XTGeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size12288 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6700 XTGeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
TDP150 wattsvs120 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs18 Aug 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6700 XT
    128.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6700 XT
    384.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    108.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6700 XT
    384.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6700 XT
    10240.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    3470.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better