GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and Radeon RX 580X - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Radeon RX 580X

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

GP106

Polaris 20

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

April 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1709 MHz

1340 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

1257 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,375 gflops

6,175 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

185 Watt

Texture fill rate

136.7

193.0

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

9028 MHz

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

216.7 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131