AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 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 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1709MHz vs 1545MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +62%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590 +13%

4757

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4207

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 590 +166%

24

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 590 +43%

46

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 590 +42%

71

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590 +44%

39

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590 +48%

74

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590 +36%

101

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

74

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jul 2016

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 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

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

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 30

GPU Name

GP106

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 590 vs MTT S70

2

AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA TITAN Xp

3

AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

4

AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

5

AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

6

AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

7

AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

8

AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

9

AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

10

AMD Radeon RX 590 vs ATI FirePro V8800

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU