NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1709MHz vs 1266MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM 's Advantages

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 OEM +33%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon RX 580 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

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 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

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

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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