Graphics card comparison
Radeon RX 570X vs GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
AMD
Radeon RX 570X
8192 Mb GDDR5
Released 11 Apr 2018
DESKTOP
VS
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
3072 Mb GDDR5
Released 18 Aug 2016
DESKTOP
Summary
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 570X
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Supports FreeSync
- Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports TrueAudio
- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon RX 570X | GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB |
|---|
| GPU Name | 1 (Polaris 20 XL
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<span title="Chip code">(215-0910052)</span>) | GP106 (GP106-300-A1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | 16 nm |
| Die Size | 244 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,700 million | 4,400 million |
| Shaders | 2048 | 1152 |
| Compute Units | 32 | 9 |
| Core clock | 1168 MHz | 1506 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | 48 |
| TMUs | 128 | 72 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon RX 570X | GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | 192 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective | 2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 8192 Mb | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 570X | GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB |
|---|
| TDP | 120 watts | 120 watts |
| Release Date | 11 Apr 2018 | 18 Aug 2016 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon RX 570X39.81 GP/s
- GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB72.30 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon RX 570X159.20 GT/s
- GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB108.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon RX 570X224.00 GB/s
- GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB192.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon RX 570X5095.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB3470.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better