GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 580, which features a core clock speed of 1257 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 580		315 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		290 Sol/s
	Difference: 25 (9%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 580		28 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 9 (47%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 580		13630 points
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		12185 points
	Difference: 1445 (12%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (54%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 580 should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 is a lot (more or less 67%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 72576 (67%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32064 (80%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.