NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1708MHz vs 1266MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 OEM +48%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

Radeon RX 580 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

1152

Shading Units

2304

72

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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