Radeon RX 580 and GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison
Radeon RX 580
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Polaris 20
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1340 MHz
1709 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
136.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
256.3 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3