AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB 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

2281 points

2438 points

6% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

49 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

39 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

32 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

324.97 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33671 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54191 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

36656 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

35111 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

33988 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

1506 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

1709 MHz

27% 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

256 GB/s

59% significantly higher memory bandwidth

160.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

120 W

54% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

68.36 Gigapixels/s

59% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

41% slightly higher texture rate

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

41% slightly better floating point performance

4.38 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

79% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

79% 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

192nd of 586

181st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

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

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GTX 1060 5GB comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB beats the Radeon RX 580 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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. 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 5GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB is better than the Radeon RX 580.