GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs Radeon RX 580
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 580 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X | | Radeon RX 580 | |
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| GPU Name | GP104 () | vs | Ellesmere (Ellesmere XT) |
| Fab Process | 16 nm | vs | 14 nm |
| Die Size | 314 mm² | vs | 232 mm² |
| Transistors | 7,200 million | vs | 5,700 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 2304 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 36 |
| Core clock | 1506 MHz | vs | 1120 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 144 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X | | Radeon RX 580 | |
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| Memory Type | GDDR5X | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1001 MHz
8008 MHz effective | vs | 2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 8192 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X | | Radeon RX 580 | |
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| TDP | 120 watts | vs | 150 watts |
| Release Date | UNRELEASED | vs | 1 Apr 2017 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better