NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB VS AMD Radeon RX 580

nvidia

Brand

3GB GDDR5

Memory

1152

Cores

192.2 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

N/A Aug 2016 View Details

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amd

Brand

8GB GDDR5

Memory

2304

Cores

256 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 580

N/A Apr 2017 View Details

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3GB GDDR5 120W N/A Aug 2016

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

$199 • Aug 2016

Radeon RX 580

$229 • Apr 2017

AMD Radeon RX 580

8GB GDDR5 185W N/A Apr 2017

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB	AMD Radeon RX 580
Memory Size	3 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
TDP	120 W	185 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1708 MHz	1340 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	192.2 GB/s	256 GB/s
Process Size	16nm	14nm
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 4.0
Shading Units	1152	2304
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	72	144
ROPs	48	32
Memory Bus	192-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	2002 MHz	2000 MHz
Pixel Rate	81.98 GPixel/s	42.88 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	192.2 GTexel/s	256 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	3.935 GFLOPS	6.175 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	1.50 MB	2.00 MB
Die Size	200 mm²	232 mm²
Transistors	4400 Million	5700 Million
Required PSU	300 W	450 W
Power Connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	GlobalFoundries

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

3753

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

4176 (+11%)

AMD Radeon RX 580

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

34861

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

40514 (+16%)

AMD Radeon RX 580

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

49.7 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

FPS

AMD Radeon RX 580

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

9787 (+11%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

8835

AMD Radeon RX 580

Game Benchmarks Comparison (114 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

Radeon RX 580 (+11%)

AVG 117 FPS

MIN 105 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AVG 105 FPS

MIN 95 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX 580

AVG 83 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (+2%)

AVG 85 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

2160p

| high

Radeon RX 580

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (+14%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

Radeon RX 580

AVG 96 FPS

MIN 92 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (+15%)

AVG 110 FPS

MIN 103 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX 580

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (+11%)

AVG 69 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

2160p

| high

Radeon RX 580

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB (+17%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+15%)

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+9%)

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+18%)

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

Radeon RX 580 (+14%)

AVG 89 FPS

MIN 81 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AVG 78 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX 580 (+15%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+18%)

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 20 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+17%)

AVG 102 FPS

MIN 96 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 80 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+35%)

AVG 66 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+55%)

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+30%)

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AVG 67 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+33%)

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 39 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+44%)

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AVG 27 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

AMD Radeon RX 580 Wins!

Based on 111 benchmarks across 38 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

+12.5%

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 580