NVIDIA GTX 1060 better than AMD Radeon RX 480 by 33 percent in leaked benchmarks

NVIDIA GTX 1060 benchmarks have been leaked and it shows significantly better performance than the AMD Radeon RX 480 by up to 33 percent which could make it the superior choice.

AMD has taken the mid-end market spotlight with their Radeon RX 480 which is almost as good as a GTX 980 but cheaper. It was thought that NVIDIA would be only taking the high-end market but the GTX 1060 proves that they want to dominate all markets.

Rumors of a GTX 1060 first surfaced when a shipment manifest was spotted carrying the GP106 Pascal GPU which has now been confirmed as the new card from NVIDIA. The benchmark results now confirm that the card does perform better than the Polaris 10 card from AMD.

There are now GTX 1060 benchmarks pitted against the Radeon RX 480 leaked on Chinese forums and it shows that it performs 33 percent better in GTA V, WCCFTech has learned. It also performed better on Crysis 3 Very High Preset on 1440p with 27.6 frames per second compared to the RX 480's 23.1 fps.

All of the games tested between the GTX 1060 and the RX 480 all point to the former being the better choice. There was the Fallout 4 1440p benchmark which showed the same fps but the GTX 1060 was still better on the 1080p max settings with a 5 percent advantage.

The NVIDIA GTX 1060 would also perform better in VR considering that it scored 8.2 in the SteamVR performance test while the RX 480 only scored 6.6 which translates to a 24 percent advantage for the Pascal card over the Polaris card.

NVIDIA is set to launch the GTX 1060 6GB model on July 13 for $249 while the cheaper 3GB model is expected in August for around $200. Partner cards have already surfaced but the release dates are still unknown.

Zotac has their new GeForce GTX 1060 Mini cards which is just 6.85-inches long and it would fit perfectly inside a Mini-ITX case, TechRadar reported. AMD's RX 460 is expected to be just as small but it would not perform as well as the Pascal card.

The GTX 1060 from NVIDIA seems to be the better choice as the benchmarks have shown plus there have been reports of the reference card being able to hit 2GHz boost clock when overclocked. AMD's Radeon RX 480 advantage could be just the 8GB VRAM instead of the Pascal card's 6GB.