NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP, 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

1789 points

1836 points

2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

40 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points

3877 points

17% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29934 points

40609 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32085 points

37797 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

34371 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

45743 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

1168 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

15% slightly higher boost clock speed

1284 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

224 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

87% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

72% significantly higher pixel rate

41.09 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

164.4 Gigatexels/s

38% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

5.26 TFLOPS

38% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

2048

60% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

225th of 597

221st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2018 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 580 2048SP comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 2048SP at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.