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

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AMD Radeon RX 590 GME NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

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

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 GME +49%

6.543 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590 GME +5%

4431

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4202

Radeon RX 590 GME

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2020

Release Date

Jul 2016

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1420 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

10

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1280

144

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

45.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

204.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

6.543 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

6.543 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

409.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GP106

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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