AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce GTX 1060

[ VERDICT ] Winner: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX leads overall with a score of 85/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1060 (17/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce GTX 1060
4K Gaming 91.0 Excellent —
DeviceBenchmark Score 85.0 Very Good —
Rasterization 94.0 Excellent —
Ray Tracing 78.0 Very Good —
Efficiency — 37.0 Poor
Gaming — 14.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce GTX 1060
Memory Size 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit) —
Bus — 192-bit
ECC — No
Effective Memory Speed — 8000 Mbps
Memory Clock — 2002 MHz
Memory Size — 6 GB
Memory Type — GDDR5

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce GTX 1060
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Pascal
Stream Processors 6,144 Stream Processors —

Power

Power specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce GTX 1060
Tdp 355W TBP —

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce GTX 1060
Fire Strike — 13132
Night Raid — 54686
Port Royal — 844
Solar Bay — 11278
Time Spy — 4203
Wild Life Extreme — 8510

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce GTX 1060
CUDA — 6.1
DLSS — No
DirectX — 12
DisplayPort — 1.4a
OpenCL — 3.0
OpenGL — 4.6
Ray Tracing — No
Vulkan — 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce GTX 1060
1080p High — 50
1080p Ultra — 37
1440p Ultra — 27
4K Ultra — 13
CoD: Modern Warfare III — 38322213
Counter-Strike 2 — 96634218
Cyberpunk 2077 — 302619-
Far Cry 6 — 50453315
Forza Horizon 5 — 68372916
Ghost of Tsushima — 2920169
Hogwarts Legacy — 3222189
Margin of Error — Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider — 57493418
The Witcher 3 — 54402613

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce GTX 1060
Backend — DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) — 10515
Face Detection (HP) — 6356
Framework — ONNX
Image Classification (SP) — 1462
Image Segmentation (HP) — 3872
Image Super Resolution (Q) — 8136
Machine Translation (HP) — 3149
Object Detection (SP) — 2096
Pose Estimation (Q) — 33181
Style Transfer (SP) — 67831
Text Classification (SP) — 1806

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce GTX 1060
API — OpenCL
Background Blur — 100.2 img/sec
Edge Detection — 2.25 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection — 48.1 img/sec
Feature Matching — 0.25 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur — 2.58 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection — 1.54 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics — 4220.5 FPS
Stereo Matching — 136.9 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce GTX 1060
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Pascal
Build — Discrete
Case — Desktop
GPU Codename — GP106
Launch price (MSRP) — $299
Purpose — Gaming
Recommended CPU — -Intel Core i7 7700or above
Released — July 19, 2016
Segment — Mid-range
Successor — -GeForce RTX 5060
Vendor — Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce GTX 1060
Base Clock — 1506 MHz
Boost Clock — 1709 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) — 10
Instructions Per Cycle — 2 IPC
L1 Cache — 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache — 1536KB shared
Ray-tracing Cores — No
Render Output Units (ROPs) — 48
Shading Units — 1280
Tensor Cores — No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) — 80

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce GTX 1060
DirectX 11 — 72 FPS
DirectX 12 — 37 FPS
G2D Mark — 737
GPU Compute — 4246 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce GTX 1060
Die Size — 200 mm²
Fabrication Process — 16 nm
Interface — PCIe 3.0 x16
Manufacturing — TSMC
TGP — 120 W
Transistor Count — 4 billion
Transistor Density — 20 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce GTX 1060
Pixel Fill Rate — 82 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate — 137 GTexel/s

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