AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 590 GME and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 1453.5x more texture fill rate: 198.7 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
Launch date 9 Mar 2020 vs 5 January 2018
Texture fill rate 198.7 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 16 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1257 MHz
  • Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1380 MHz
  • Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 175 Watt
  • 4x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective)
  • 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 14345 vs 5140
  • 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 14345 vs 5140
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1506 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Boost clock speed 1709 MHz vs 1380 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 175 Watt
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14345 vs 5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14345 vs 5140

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 590 GME
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5140
14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5140
14345
Name AMD Radeon RX 590 GME NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
PassMark - G2D Mark 658
PassMark - G3D Mark 8570
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5140 14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5140 14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6839
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6839
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 20161
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 20161
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4431

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
Code name Polaris 20 GP106
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch date 9 Mar 2020 5 January 2018
Place in performance rating 206 72
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $299

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1380 MHz 1709 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1257 MHz 1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 397.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 6.359 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 6.359 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate 44.16 GPixel/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 198.7 GTexel/s 136.7 GTexel / s
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt 120 Watt
Transistor count 5700 million 4,400 million
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops
Pipelines 1280

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 241 mm (9.5 inches) 250 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s 192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) 8008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support