AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

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Radeon RX 580 compared with GeForce GTX 1060

	AMDRadeon RX 580	NVIDIAGeForce GTX 1060
Overview
Released
Released	April 2017	July 2016
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	GCN 4	Pascal
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,304 or 2,048	1,280 or 1,152
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,340 MHz or –	1,708 MHz or –
Architecture
Architecture	AMD original 8 GB reference baseline uses fourth-generation GCN (Polaris), 36 compute units, 32 ROPs and 144 texture units. Photo shows MSI's factory-overclocked ARMOR 8G OC, not a reference card. Later 2048SP configurations below identify specific Chinese-market Sapphire boards.	Main figures and photo describe the original 6 GB Founders Edition. The 3 GB card has 1152 CUDA cores rather than 1280. Later 9 Gbps GDDR5 and GDDR5X cards were partner designs; unpublished general revision figures remain blank in their configurations.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	14 nm	16 nm FinFET (original GP106)
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No hardware ray accelerators	No dedicated RT Cores
AI cores
AI cores	–	No Tensor Cores
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	–	No NVIDIA DLSS
Base clock
Base clock	Original AMD baseline is 1,257 MHz base and 1,340 MHz boost. Pictured MSI ARMOR 8G OC boosts to 1,366 MHz. Sapphire's 2048SP pages state core frequencies of 1,306 MHz (4 GB) and 1,284 MHz (8 GB V2) without a boost label, so numeric boost is omitted for those configurations.	1506 MHz base and 1708 MHz boost for the original 6 GB and stock-clock 3 GB cards. MSI GAMING X+ 6G (9 Gbps GDDR5) has 1708 MHz boost in Silent Mode, 1784 MHz Gaming Mode and 1809 MHz OC Mode. MSI ARMOR 6GD5X OC specifies 1544 MHz base and 1759 MHz boost; these factory OC figures are not assigned to every GDDR5X card.
Cache
Cache	–	1536 KB L2 cache (original GP106)
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR5 or 4 GB GDDR5	6 GB GDDR5, 3 GB GDDR5 or 6 GB GDDR5X
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit (better)	192-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s or –	192 GB/s or –
Memory detail
Memory detail	Original stock Sapphire Pulse 8 GB SKU 11265-06 has 8,000 MHz effective memory; original stock 4 GB SKU 11265-10 and the named 2048SP boards have 7,000 MHz. AMD publishes 256 GB/s only for the 8 GB baseline; bandwidth is omitted for the others. Sapphire's original 4 GB power is only stated as less than 225 W, so its numeric power remains unpublished.	Original 6 GB and 3 GB cards have 8 Gbps GDDR5, 192-bit bus and 192 GB/s bandwidth. NVIDIA confirms the later 9 Gbps GDDR5 refresh; MSI GAMING X+ lists 9026 MHz Gaming/Silent and 9126 MHz OC memory speed. MSI ARMOR 6GD5X OC verifies 6 GB GDDR5X, 192-bit bus and 8008 MHz memory speed, but publishes no bandwidth figure. Later revisions' first-sale dates are unverified.
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	185 W, – or 150 W	120 W or –
Interface
Interface	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	Pictured MSI ARMOR has 2 × DisplayPort, 2 × HDMI and dual-link DVI-D. Sapphire 2048SP 4 GB SKU 11265-65-18 has DVI-D only; 8 GB Pulse V2 SKU 11265-70-48 has one HDMI 2.0b, one DisplayPort 1.4 and DVI-D. AMD's reference feature table lists DVI as No; partner outputs vary.	Original Founders Edition has 3 × DisplayPort 1.3/1.4, HDMI 2.0b and dual-link DVI; partner outputs vary
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	MSI ARMOR specifies 7680 × 4320 and five displays; Sapphire's named 2048SP 4 GB board is limited to 1920 × 1200 at 60 Hz over DVI-D. Its 8 GB V2 board lists DisplayPort 5120 × 2880 at 60 Hz and HDMI 4096 × 2160 at 60 Hz.	7680 × 4320 (PNY stock 3 GB specification)
Power connector
Power connector	One 8-pin on the pictured MSI ARMOR, original Sapphire Pulse and both named 2048SP boards	1 × PCIe 6-pin on the original Founders Edition and stock PNY 3 GB; MSI GAMING X+ uses 1 × 8-pin, and MSI ARMOR GDDR5X OC uses 1 × 8-pin plus 1 × 6-pin
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	AMD and MSI specify 500 W for the original model; Sapphire specifies 500 W for original Pulse and 450 W for the named 2048SP boards	400 W (PNY stock 3 GB, MSI GAMING X+ and MSI ARMOR GDDR5X OC)
Slot width
Slot width	Original Sapphire Pulse and named 2048SP designs occupy two slots; pictured MSI ARMOR is 38 mm thick	2-slot original Founders Edition; partner cards vary
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	Pictured MSI ARMOR is 269 × 125 × 38 mm and 653 g. Original Sapphire Pulse is 230 × 125 × 40 mm; named 2048SP 4 GB is 241 × 120 × 42 mm and 8 GB V2 is 212 × 111 × 40 mm.	–
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	AMD publishes H.264 and H.265/HEVC encoding and decoding; Sapphire specifies PCIe 3.0 for the named variants	–