Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 590 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 6 GB 9Gbps |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon RX 590
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 590 | | GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps | |
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| GPU Name | Polaris 30 (Polaris 30 XTX) | vs | GP106 (GP106-410-A1) |
| Fab Process | 12 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 590 | | GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps | |
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| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 192 bit |
| Memory Speed | 2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective | vs | 2257 MHz
9028 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 8192 Mb | vs | 6144 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 590 | | GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps | |
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| TDP | 0 watts | vs | 120 watts |
| Release Date | UNRELEASED | vs | 20 Apr 2017 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better