AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB, 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

1836 points

2438 points

32% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

49 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

39 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

40 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

32 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40609 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33671 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37797 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

36656 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34371 points

35111 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

45743 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

33988 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1168 MHz

1506 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1284 MHz

1709 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

160.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

41.09 Gigapixels/s

68.36 Gigapixels/s

66% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

164.4 Gigatexels/s

20% slightly higher texture rate

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.26 TFLOPS

20% slightly better floating point performance

4.38 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

60% significantly more shading units

1280

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

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

218th of 586

181st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

2017 December

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

4.6

Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs GeForce GTX 1060 5GB comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1060 5GB has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 2048SP at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB over the Radeon RX 580 2048SP.