AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1709MHz vs 1284MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +20%

5.259 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

3759

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +4%

3910

Blender

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +14%

379

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

332

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Dec 2017

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1284 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

41.09 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

164.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

5.259 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

5.259 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

328.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GP106

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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