Radeon RX 580 and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 580

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Polaris 20

GP104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

March 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1340 MHz

1708 MHz

Core clock speed

1257 MHz

1506 MHz

Floating-point performance

6,175 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

7,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

185 Watt

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

193.0

136.6

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

8008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131