AMD Radeon RX 580G vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon RX 580G

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1708MHz vs 1330MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580G +40%

6.129 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Mar 2018

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

1330 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

2304

Shading Units

1280

144

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

191.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

6.129 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

6.129 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

383.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 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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