Many of you lot looking to spend $230-$280 on a new graphics bill of fare take asked whether that money would be better off going toward a Radeon RX 580 or GeForce GTX 1060. Hoping to respond that question, we're back with multiple versions of both cards in-hand forth with the results from 27 PC game benchmarks ran at 1080p and 1440p.

The exact models used for testing included the EVGA GTX 1060 FTW+ and MSI GTX 1060 Gaming Ten+ too as the MSI RX 480 Gaming X 8G and Aorus RX 580 Xtreme Edition.

Of annotation, the EVGA FTW+ is aggressively clocked from the manufactory, featuring a base clock of 1632MHz, while the MSI Gaming Ten+ comes clocked at 1569MHz, potentially making it iv% slower. Yet, MSI'south GTX 1060 features 9Gbps GDDR5 memory that is clocked 12% college, so it'll exist interesting to see what kind of deviation that makes when comparing the cards.

In total, we ran more than 600 benchmarks and we'll be looking at over 430 individual results. We performed all testing with a Kaby Lake Core i7-7700K machine overclocked to 4.9GHz, though I'1000 certain plenty of you will be asking for Ryzen results and then that's also in the works at some bespeak soon.

For at present, allow's check out the numbers we've gathered thus far...

Test System Specs & Memory

  • Intel Core i7-7700K (iv.5 GHz)
  • Asrock Z270 Extreme4
  • 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM
  • Samsung SSD 850 Evo 2TB
  • MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X+
  • EVGA GTX 1060 FTW+
  • Aorus RX 580 Xtreme Edition
  • MSI RX 480 Gaming X 8G
  • Windows ten Pro 64-chip
  • GeForce Game Ready Driver 381.89
  • Ruby-red ReLive Edition 17.iv.4

Previously we saw that the RX 480 organisation consumed around 10% more power than the same automobile configured with the GTX 1060. Here we run across an 11% increment.

That figure jumps a further 10% when looking at the RX 580 total system consumption of 344 watts, making the Aorus RX 580's total system consumption is 22% higher than the EVGA FTW+.

For a system running a 7700K @ four.9GHz, the RX 580 hardly seems power hungry with a peak total consumption still well under 400 watts, though the GTX 1060 is clearly the better option here for anyone seeking maximum efficiency.

Benchmark fourth dimension

GTA Five, The Witcher, Tomb Raider, AotS

Starting things off we have the oldest game in this write-upward and as you can see it appears to favor the dark-green squad. Looking at the 1440p results nosotros see that the GTX 1060 was 17% faster than the RX 480, while the new RX 580 additional AMD's performance here by just 4% -- still fourteen% slower than the original GTX 1060.

This is another championship where the light-green team has a slight advantage and yep we did exam with HairWorks enabled which does give Nvidia an edge -- not enough for you to protest in the comments I hope simply somehow there are probably already a few there as I write ;).

Every bit you can see, the RX 580 was 6% faster than the RX 480, which meant it was still 6% slower than the GTX 1060s, both of which delivered the same 53fps boilerplate.

We can't be too far away from another Tomb Raider game either, rumor has it the game is existence developed entirely while traveling on public ship and Crytek is likely to follow suit for the development of Crysis 4.

We know that Rise of the Tomb Raider was developed in conjunction with the green team, just over time AMD has been able to optimize their hardware for this title quite well. As a result the RX 480 is now just a few frames behind the GTX 1060 while the RX 580 is able to match the new loftier-speed memory version.

There are more than people currently playing Command and Conquer: Cherry-red Alarm 3 on Steam than at that place are Ashes of the Singularity, which is probably why the game has earned the title "Ashes of the Criterion." There might very well be more people benchmarking the game right now than actually playing it.

Notwithstanding, in my opinion the game is one of the best examples nosotros have of a well-assembled DX12 title, though information technology is much more useful for testing CPUs than it is GPUs. The RX 580 enjoys a slight performance advantage over the GTX 1060, but for a DX12 title the margins are inappreciably significant.