Radeon RX 570 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)

Radeon RX 570
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 570
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Dec 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 570

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 (GP104)

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 570GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsGP104 (GP104-140-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs16 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs314 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs7,200 million
Shaders2048vs1152
Compute Units32vs9
Core clock926 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs128vs72

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 570GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 570GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
TDP120 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs25 Dec 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570
    38.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570
    154.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
    108.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 570
    211.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 570
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (GP104)
    3470.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better