MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G
vs
INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.34 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.60 TFLOPS.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060 has 1280 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.75 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.48 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060 is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 10 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G GPU INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip GP106-400-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Pascal
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 10
2304 Shader 1280
32 Render Output Units 48
144 Texture Units 80
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060 has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 6 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 MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G has a turbo clock of 1.340 GHz. The turbo frequency of the INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060 is 1.746 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 1.531 GHz
1.340 GHz Boost Clock 1.746 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 90 °C.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

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 graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060 is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

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

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060 is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

269 mm Length 195 mm
125 mm Height 101 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

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G was released in Q3/2018.

The INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060 published in Q4/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.

-- Part-no N1060-7SDN-N5GMX
Q3/2018 Release date Q4/2019
229 $ Launch Price 249 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 16 nm
data sheet Documents --

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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

Port Royal (Raytracing)

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)

MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G
8 GB GDDR5
30 fps (avg)
INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060 INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060
6 GB GDDR5
31 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G
8 GB GDDR5
58 fps (avg)
INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060 INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060
6 GB GDDR5
55 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G
8 GB GDDR5
83 fps (avg)
INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060 INNO3D GeForce GTX 1060
6 GB GDDR5
75 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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