ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G
vs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) and has 2304 texture shaders and 36 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, which has 1152 shaders and 9 execution units.
ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip GP106-300-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Pascal
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 9
2304 Shader 1152
32 Render Output Units 48
144 Texture Units 72
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB can access 3 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 3 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 2.002 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G clocks in the base with up to 1.257 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is 1.506 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 1.506 GHz
1.360 GHz Boost Clock 1.708 GHz
1.34 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G is 185 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors.

185 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
-- HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
-- DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 No
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G is 242 mm long, 129 mm high and 38 mm wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is 250 mm long, 111 mm high and -- wide.

242 mm Length 250 mm
129 mm Height 111 mm
38 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G was released in Q3/2018 at a price of 229 $.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB was introduced in Q3/2016 at a price of 199 $ (Reference).

MINING-RX580-8G Part-no --
Q3/2018 Release date Q3/2016
229 $ Launch Price 199 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 16 nm
-- Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G
8 GB GDDR5
30 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
3 GB GDDR5
28 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G
8 GB GDDR5
59 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
3 GB GDDR5
45 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G ASUS Mining Radeon RX 580 8G
8 GB GDDR5
84 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
3 GB GDDR5
65 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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