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

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

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

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

Lower TDP (120W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +41%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

2304

Shading Units

1280

144

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

GP104

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

314 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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