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MSI GeForce GTX 1060
GPUBoss recommends the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released April, 2017
AMD Radeon RX 580
- 1.3 GHz
- 8 GB GDDR5
7.4 Out of 10
by www.tweaktown.com (Apr, 2017)This is one area I really don't like, is that SAPPHIRE requires a 6+8-pin PCIe power setup, and uses more power than NVIDIA's much faster GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition.
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Released July, 2016
MSI GeForce GTX 1060
- 1.5 GHz
- 6 GB GDDR5
7.1 Out of 10
by www.tweaktown.com (Jul, 2017)Performance (overclocking, power)90%Quality (build, design, cooling)80%General Features (display outputs, etc)90%Bundle, Packaging & Software80% Overall TweakTown Rating85% The Bottom Line: A great option for mid-range 1080p gamers who want excellent performance in mainstream games, but with some grunt to handle either higher resolutions or detail levels, or higher-end games.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of RX 580 vs 1060 among all GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 7.4 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Better floating-point performance | 6,175 GFLOPS | vs | 3,953 GFLOPS | More than 55% better floating-point performance | |||
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| More memory | 8,192 MB | vs | 6,144 MB | Around 35% more memory | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 256 GB/s | vs | 192.2 GB/s | Around 35% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Higher texture rate | 193 GTexel/s | vs | 123.5 GTexel/s | More than 55% higher texture rate | |||
| More shading units | 2,304 | vs | 1,280 | 1024 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 144 | vs | 80 | 64 more texture mapping units | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 1,544 MHz | vs | 1,257 MHz | Around 25% higher clock speed | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 74.1 GPixel/s | vs | 42.88 GPixel/s | Around 75% higher pixel rate | |||
| Slightly better PassMark score | 8,686 | vs | 7,781 | More than 10% better PassMark score | |||
| Significantly higher turbo clock speed | 1,759 MHz | vs | 1,340 MHz | More than 30% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| More render output processors | 48 | vs | 32 | 16 more render output processors | |||
| Better particle simulation score | 1,198.64 mInteraction/s | vs | 824.38 mInteraction/s | More than 45% better particle simulation score | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 5,049 | vs | 3,923 | Around 30% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Lower TDP | 120W | vs | 185W | More than 35% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GTX 1060
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Particle simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) Data courtesy CompuBench
Video composition Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
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