The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 has 1280 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.71 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.38 TFLOPS.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 10 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.
Memory
Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
Memory Size
6 GB
8 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Clock
2.002 GHz
2.000 GHz
Memory Speed
8.0 Gbps
8.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
192 GB/s
256 GB/s
Memory Interface
192 bit
256 bit
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.
The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
Base Clock
1.506 GHz
1.469 GHz
Boost Clock
1.708 GHz
1.545 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 has a turbo clock of 1.708 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 is 1.545 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
TDP
120 W
225 W
Tjunction max
94 °C
98 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 6-Pin
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 has 1 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.
The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
Fan-Type
Radial
Axial
Fan 1
1 x 65 mm
2 x 95 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
--
0 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 are cooled with a Air cooling.
The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0b
2x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.4
2x DP 1.4
DVI
1
1
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
Max. resolution
7680x4320
7680x4320
DirectX
12_1
12
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
Yes
LED
No LED lighting
Non addressable LED
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.
The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
VP8
No
Decode
VP9
Decode
Decode
AV1
No
No
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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.
Dimensions
Dimensions
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
Length
250 mm
260 mm
Height
111 mm
135 mm
Width
--
43 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
3 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 is -- and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
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.
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.
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