AMD Radeon RX 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580X 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, 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

2318 points

12% slightly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

19 FPS

29 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41822 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41822 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 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

1708 MHz

27% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 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

81.98 Gigapixels/s

91% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

56% significantly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

56% significantly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

100% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

100% 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

189th of 586

206th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

2016 August

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 580X vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB comparison

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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 3GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is faster than the Radeon RX 580X.