XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
vs
PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.58 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 7.28 TFLOPS.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 590 Fatboy 8GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 10 execution units.
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB GPU PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
AMD Radeon RX 590 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Polaris 30 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 590 Fatboy 8GB is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB has a turbo clock of 1.580 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is 1.708 GHz.

1.469 GHz Base Clock 1.506 GHz
1.580 GHz Boost Clock 1.708 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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.

225 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 590 Fatboy 8GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 590 Fatboy 8GB is 53 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is 53 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

270 mm Length 252 mm
124 mm Height 112 mm
53 mm Width 39 mm
3 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 590 Fatboy 8GB was released in Q3/2019.

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

RX-590P8DFD6 Part-no VCGGTX10606PB
Q3/2019 Release date Q3/2016
299 $ 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)

XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
8 GB GDDR5
33 fps (avg)
PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
6 GB GDDR5
30 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
8 GB GDDR5
65 fps (avg)
PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
6 GB GDDR5
54 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
8 GB GDDR5
92 fps (avg)
PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
6 GB GDDR5
73 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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