GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and Radeon RX 6700 XT - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
Radeon RX 6700 XT
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GP106
Navi 22
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2018
March 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1709 MHz
2581 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
2321 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
17,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
230 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
413.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
384.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2