Comparison of GeForce GTX 1060 and Radeon RX 580

Attribute	Radeon RX 580 ×	GeForce GTX 1060 ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2017	2016
Reference card	-	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 1.5 GHz 6 GB
GPU brand	AMD	Nvidia
GPU name	Polaris 20	GP106
Market	-	Desktop
Clock speed (MHz)	1,257	1,544
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	1,340	1,759
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	Radeon RX 580	GeForce GTX 1060
Memory
Memory (MB)	8,192	6,144
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	256	192.2
Memory bus (bit)	256	192
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	2,000	2,002
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	8,000	8,008
Noise and power
TDP (W)	185	120
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	42.88	74.1
Render output processors	32	48
Texture mapping units	144	80
Shading units	2,304	1,280
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	6,175	3,953
Compute units	36	-
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	193	123.5
Benchmarks
Particle simulation (mInteraction/s)	-	1196.96
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) (frames/s)	-	8.68
Video composition (frames/s)	-	21.91
Cloud Gate Factor	22.5	-
Face detection (mPixels/s)	116.37	119.24
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)	3350.64	3358.86
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0)	3709.21	3717.62
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	607.72	576.4
Sky Diver Factor	441.03	-
Fire Strike Factor	75.63	-
Ocean surface simulation (frames/s)	2007.61	1766.73