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AMD Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GTX 1060

Radeon RX 580
VS
GeForce GTX 1060
AMD Radeon RX 580
Polaris 20
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060
GP106

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 580 8 GB with 2304 shaders against the 9 months older GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB that utilizes 10 pipelines and 1280 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
8 GB GDDR5
VS
6 GB GDDR5
48.2
(Average)
Value Index
9.9
(Bad)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1060 over RX 580
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 580
  • 41% higher maximum theoretical performance (6.2 vs 4.4 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 14 nm process technology
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 256 vs 192.2 GB/s
  • Has 80% more shading units (2304 vs 1280)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 580
vs
GTX 1060

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
76
39
31
17
68
37
29
16
The Witcher 3
50
41
22
12
54
40
26
13
Counter-Strike 2
74
55
38
15
96
63
42
18
Far Cry 6
59
49
35
17
50
45
33
15
Hogwarts Legacy
34
26
20
9
32
22
18
9
CoD: Modern Warfare III
48
42
27
15
38
32
22
13
Ghost of Tsushima
33
23
19
10
29
20
16
9
Cyberpunk 2077
33
27
16
-
30
26
19
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
60
52
32
15
57
49
34
18
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 52 50
1080p Ultra 39 37
1440p Ultra 27 27
4K Ultra 13 13
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 580 +2%
4183
GTX 1060
4085
Time Spy 4354 4203
Solar Bay - 11278
Port Royal 527 844
Fire Strike 14980 13132
Wild Life Extreme 8907 8510
Night Raid 56859 54686
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 580 +3%
40514
GTX 1060
39230
Background Blur 59.5 img/sec 100.2 img/sec
Face Detection 33.8 img/sec 48.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.56 Gpixels/sec 1.54 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.1 Gpixels/sec 2.25 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.92 Gpixels/sec 2.58 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.33 Gpixels/sec 0.25 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 161.8 Gpixels/sec 136.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5395.1 FPS 4220.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 580
n/a
GTX 1060
2586

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 580
8782
GTX 1060 +14%
10026
G2D Mark 770 737
DirectX 11 60 FPS 72 FPS
DirectX 12 43 FPS 37 FPS
GPU Compute 3409 Ops/s 4246 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 33466 & 48280 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 580 +4%
391.86
GTX 1060
375.66
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 91 & 943 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 580 +20%
7905
GTX 1060
6580
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 580 +23%
8166
GTX 1060
6649
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 580 +17%
5642
GTX 1060
4804
Image Classification (SP) 3143 1462
Image Segmentation (HP) 3955 3872
Image Super Resolution (Q) 7872 8136
Face Detection (HP) 11922 6356
Pose Estimation (Q) 41162 33181
Text Classification (SP) 1199 1806
Machine Translation (HP) 1773 3149
Object Detection (SP) 3620 2096
Depth Estimation (Q) 13995 10515
Style Transfer (SP) 84083 67831
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 580 and GeForce GTX 1060

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released April 18, 2017 July 19, 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $229 $299
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
GPU Codename Polaris 20 GP106
Rival Equivalent - GeForce GTX 1060 -
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 8500 or above - Intel Core i7 7700 or above
Desktop GPU rating (83rd and 84th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1257 MHz 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 1340 MHz 1709 MHz
Shading Units 2304 1280
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 10
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache 16KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1536KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 43 GPixel/s 82 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 193 GTexel/s 137 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 580 +41%
6.2 TFLOPS
GTX 1060
4.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 185 W 120 W
Manufacturing GlobalFoundries TSMC
Fabrication Process 14 nm 16 nm
Die Size 232 mm² 200 mm²
Transistor Count 5 billion 4 billion
Transistor Density 21.55 MTr/mm² 20 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Size 8 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 2002 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps 8000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 580 +33%
256 GB/s
GTX 1060
192.2 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 6.1
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
Further details
Notes on GTX 1060:
    - There is also 3GB memory version, which is about 10% slower.

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