GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB and Radeon RX 6900 XT - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
Radeon RX 6900 XT
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GP106
Navi 21
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2017
December 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1480 MHz
2250 MHz
Core clock speed
1265 MHz
1825 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
26,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
5120
Power consumption (TDP)
80 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
720.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12.0
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2