GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
N17P-G1 Max-Q
Polaris 30
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2017
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1341 - 1480 MHz
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
1063 - 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)
60 - 70 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
222.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6.144 MB
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
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
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
-
+
VR Ready
+
-