NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1708MHz vs 1420MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME +66%

6.543 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Mar 2020

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

2304

72

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

45.44 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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