Radeon RX 580X vs GeForce GTX 1060
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 580X |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
| 65 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 580X . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 580X | | GeForce GTX 1060 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Polaris 20 (Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)) | vs | GP106 (GP106-400-A1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 16 nm |
| Die Size | 244 mm² | vs | 200 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,700 million | vs | 4,400 million |
| Shaders | 2304 | vs | 1280 |
| Compute Units | 36 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 1257 MHz | vs | 1506 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 48 |
| TMUs | 144 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 580X | | GeForce GTX 1060 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 192 bit |
| Memory Speed | 2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective | vs | 2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 8192 Mb | vs | 6144 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 580X | | GeForce GTX 1060 | |
|---|
| TDP | 185 watts | vs | 120 watts |
| Release Date | 11 Apr 2018 | vs | 10 Jul 2016 |
Radeon RX 580X
42.88 GP/s
GeForce GTX 1060
72.30 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 580X
193.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 1060
120.50 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 580X
256.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 1060
192.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 580X
6175.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 1060
3855.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better