AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

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 GDDR5X '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 GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 590 +166%

24

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 590 +35%

46

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 590 +39%

71

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590 +39%

39

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

28

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590 +42%

74

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590 +34%

101

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Oct 2018

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

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

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

GP104

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 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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