NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1536GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 +176%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

16

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

244W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GF110

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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