NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1709MHz vs 1340MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 +41%

6.175 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3910

Radeon RX 580 +11%

4362

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

16

Radeon RX 580 +6%

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +14%

40

Radeon RX 580

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

50

Radeon RX 580

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +11%

30

Radeon RX 580

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

54

Radeon RX 580

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

73

Radeon RX 580 +6%

78

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Apr 2017

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

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

40

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

185W

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

GP106

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

200 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

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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