GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 580

GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce GTX 580
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Nov 2010
GeForce GTX 580

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    263%
  • GeForce GTX 580
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

124 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 580 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 163% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GeForce GTX 580

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

The GeForce GTX 1060 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 580
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsGF110 (GF110-375-A1)
Fab Process16 nmvs40 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs520 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs3,000 million
Shaders1280vs512
Compute Units10vs16
Core clock1506 MHzvs772 MHz
ROPs48vs48
TMUs80vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 580
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs1536 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 580
TDP120 wattsvs244 watts
Release Date10 Jul 2016vs9 Nov 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    24.70 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    49.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 580
    1581.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    17380
  • GeForce GTX 580
    6600

Points (higher is better)