PowerColor Radeon RX 5700
vs
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.73 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 7.95 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps has 1280 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.87 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.80 TFLOPS.

GPU

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 1 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 10 execution units.
PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 GPU GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps
AMD Radeon RX 5700 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Navi 10 GPU Chip GP106-400-A1
RDNA 1 Architecture Pascal
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 10
2304 Shader 1280
64 Render Output Units 48
144 Texture Units 80
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.079GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.079 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.3 Gbps
448 GB/s Memory bandwidth 199 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 has a turbo clock of 1.725 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps is 1.873 GHz.

1.465 GHz Base Clock 1.620 GHz
1.725 GHz Boost Clock 1.873 GHz
1.63 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.85 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

180 W TDP 120 W
220 W TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps is cooled by a Air cooling.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 80 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
46-47 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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

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
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 No
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

281 mm Length 281 mm
126 mm Height 137 mm
42 mm Width 59 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 was released in Q3/2019.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6G 9Gbps published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.

-- Part-no GV-N1060AORUS X-6GD
Q3/2019 Release date Q3/2016
329 $ 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)

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)

PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 PowerColor Radeon RX 5700
8 GB GDDR6
19 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 PowerColor Radeon RX 5700
8 GB GDDR6
30 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 PowerColor Radeon RX 5700
8 GB GDDR6
48 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.

2560x1440 (1440p)

PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 PowerColor Radeon RX 5700
8 GB GDDR6
32 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 PowerColor Radeon RX 5700
8 GB GDDR6
62 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)

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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