NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1709MHz vs 1420MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

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

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME +49%

6.543 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Mar 2020

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

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

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

45.44 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

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

175W

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 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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