AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
vs
ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT has 1024 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.82 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.77 TFLOPS.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has 1280 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.71 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.38 TFLOPS.

GPU

The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 16 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 10 execution units.
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT GPU ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Navi 24 XT GPU Chip GP106-400-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Pascal
16 Streaming Multiprocessors 10
1024 Shader 1280
32 Render Output Units 48
64 Texture Units 80
16 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.250 GHz clocks.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
2.250 GHz Memory Clock 2.002 GHz
18.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
144 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
64 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT has a turbo clock of 2.815 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is 1.708 GHz.

2.200 GHz Base Clock 1.506 GHz
2.815 GHz Boost Clock 1.708 GHz
2.61 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT has 1 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 97 °C.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

107 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
97 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
-- Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

2 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
-- HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.0b
-- DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 No
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

-- Length 242 mm
-- Height 130 mm
-- Width 43 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 4 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 6 nanometer process, AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT was released in Q1/2022.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.

-- Part-no DUAL-GTX1060-6G
Q1/2022 Release date Q3/2016
199 $ (Reference) Launch Price 249 $ (Reference)
6 nm Structure size 16 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
4 GB GDDR6
14 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
4 GB GDDR6
19 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
4 GB GDDR6
31 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
4 GB GDDR6
30 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
4 GB GDDR6
27 fps (avg)
ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
6 GB GDDR5
30 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
4 GB GDDR6
52 fps (avg)
ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
6 GB GDDR5
54 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
4 GB GDDR6
68 fps (avg)
ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
6 GB GDDR5
73 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
4 GB GDDR6
50239

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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