GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 6900 XT Master 16G (rev. 2.0)
vs
ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 6900 XT Master 16G (rev. 2.0) has 5120 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.34 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 23.91 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 GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 6900 XT Master 16G (rev. 2.0) is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 80 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.
GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 6900 XT Master 16G (rev. 2.0) GPU ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Navi 21 GPU Chip GP106-400-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Pascal
80 Streaming Multiprocessors 10
5120 Shader 1280
128 Render Output Units 48
320 Texture Units 80
80 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 6900 XT Master 16G (rev. 2.0) is equipped with a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 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.

16 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 2.002 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 6900 XT Master 16G (rev. 2.0) has a turbo clock of 2.335 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is 1.708 GHz.

1.950 GHz Base Clock 1.506 GHz
2.335 GHz Boost Clock 1.708 GHz
2.14 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 6900 XT Master 16G (rev. 2.0) has 3 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °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.

300 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
3 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 6900 XT Master 16G (rev. 2.0) are cooled with a Air cooling.

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

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 110 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
1 x 100 mm Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
36 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 6900 XT Master 16G (rev. 2.0) 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.

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

Featureset

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 6900 XT Master 16G (rev. 2.0) 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
GIGABYTE RGB Fusion 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 / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 No
Decode / Encode VP8 No
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 6900 XT Master 16G (rev. 2.0) is 60 mm 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 60 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

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

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 6900 XT Master 16G (rev. 2.0) was released in Q4/2021.

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

GV-R69XTAORUS M-16GD Part-no DUAL-GTX1060-6G
Q4/2021 Release date Q3/2016
999 $ (Reference) Launch Price 249 $ (Reference)
7 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.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

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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