ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB
vs
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB and the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and has 1024 texture shaders and 16 execution units.

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3G is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, which has 1152 shaders and 9 execution units.
ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB GPU GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3G
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Navi 24 XT GPU Chip GP106-300-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Pascal
16 Streaming Multiprocessors 9
1024 Shader 1152
32 Render Output Units 48
64 Texture Units 72
16 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 144 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3G can access 3 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 3 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 ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB clocks in the base with up to 2.200 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3G is 1.594 GHz.

2.200 GHz Base Clock 1.594 GHz
2.815 GHz Boost Clock 1.847 GHz
2.61 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.81 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB is 107 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3G has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

107 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
97 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB has a total of 1 Axial fans.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3G has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 2 screens can be connected to the ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3G supports a maximum of 4 screens.

2 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
1x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3G is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

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

Dimensions

The ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB is 179 mm long, 124 mm high and 40 mm wide.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3G is 278 mm long, 114 mm high and 40 mm wide.

179 mm Length 278 mm
124 mm Height 114 mm
40 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
385 g Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 4 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB was released in Q1/2022 at a price of 199 $ (Reference).

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3G was introduced in Q3/2016 at a price of 199 $ (Reference).

RX6500XT CLI 4G Part-no GV-N1060G1 GAMING-3GD
Q1/2022 Release date Q3/2016
199 $ (Reference) Launch Price 199 $ (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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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)

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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

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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