NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1709MHz vs 1284MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +20%

5.259 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +4%

430

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

411

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1284 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

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

41.09 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

164.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.259 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.259 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

328.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

314 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 DVI 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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