NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1709MHz vs 1545MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +62%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

314 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

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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