GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Radeon RX 590
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10560
Radeon RX 590
9695
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
GP106
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
222.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+
VR Ready
+
-