Radeon RX 570X vs GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Radeon RX 570X
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Apr 2018
Radeon RX 570X
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 570X

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 570XGeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
GPU Name1 (Polaris 20 XL
(215-0910052))
vsGP106 (GP106-300-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs16 nm
Die Size244 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs4,400 million
Shaders2048vs1152
Compute Units32vs9
Core clock1168 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs128vs72

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 570XGeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 570XGeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
TDP120 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date11 Apr 2018vs18 Aug 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570X
    39.81 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570X
    159.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    108.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 570X
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 570X
    5095.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    3470.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better