GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Radeon RX 590

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

GP106

Polaris 30

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

June 2017

November 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1480 MHz

1545 MHz

Core clock speed

1265 MHz

1469 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,789 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)

80 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

118.4

222.5

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

8008 MHz

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12.0

12 (12_0)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

FreeSync