Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Aug 2016 | Apr 2017 |
| Generation | GeForce 10 | Polaris |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1506 MHz | 1257 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1708 MHz | 1340 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 2002 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 8GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 192bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 192.2GB/s | 256.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 9 | |
| Shading Units | 1152 | 2304 |
| TMUs | 72 | 144 |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 48 KB (per SM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 1536 KB | 2 MB |
| Compute Units | 36 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 81.98 GPixel/s | 42.88 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 123.0 GTexel/s | 193.0 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 61.49 GFLOPS | 6.175 TFLOPS |
| FP32 (float) | 3.935 TFLOPS | 6.175 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 123.0 GFLOPS | 385.9 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GP106 | Polaris 20 |
| GPU Variant | GP106-300-A1 | Polaris 20 XTX(215-0910038) |
| Architecture | Pascal | GCN 4.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | GlobalFoundries |
| Process Size | 16 nm | 14 nm |
| Transistors | 4.4 billion | 5.7 billion |
| Die Size | 200 mm² | 232 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 120W | 185W |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | 450 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a | 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (12_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 6.1 | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 6.7 |