NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580X 8 GB, 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

2077 points

2318 points

11% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

47 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

35 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

28 FPS

51 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

19 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

41822 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

41822 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

35% slightly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

54% significantly lower TDP

185 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

208th of 597

192nd of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 580X specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 580X graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1060 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 580X has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580X at 185 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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