XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition 8GB only a Best Buy
vs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition 8GB only a Best Buy has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.43 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.96 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 has 1280 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.71 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.38 TFLOPS.

GPU

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition 8GB only a Best Buy is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 10 execution units.
XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition 8GB only a Best Buy GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
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 XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition 8GB only a Best Buy is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.025 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 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
2.025 GHz Memory Clock 2.002 GHz
8.1 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
259 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition 8GB only a Best Buy has a turbo clock of 1.425 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is 1.708 GHz.

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

Thermal Design

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition 8GB only a Best Buy 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 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 XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition 8GB only a Best Buy are cooled with a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition 8GB only a Best Buy supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition 8GB only a Best Buy supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 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 XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition 8GB only a Best Buy is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

270 mm Length 250 mm
124 mm Height 111 mm
40 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, XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition 8GB only a Best Buy was released in Q2/2017.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.

RX-580P8DBDR Part-no --
Q2/2017 Release date Q3/2016
229 $ Launch Price 249 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 16 nm
data sheet 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

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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