NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points
200% significantly better overall score
686 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points
130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
14740 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points
119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
15208 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586
294th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce GTX 580 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 580 in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is better than the GeForce GTX 580.

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