Prey benchmarked: Radeon RX 580 vs. GeForce GTX 1060
Video Cards & GPUs
AMD Radeon GPU
We benchmark Prey at 1080p and 1440p on the AMD Radeon RX 580 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060… but who wins? Let’s see.
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Introduction
If there is a hot game out right now, it would have to be the newly-rebooted Prey from Arkane Studios and Bethesda. The team at Arkane have crafted a first-person shooter that feels like System Shock and BioShock mixed together, with some new tweaks on the enemies in the game, and the setting in which you play: space.
The main reason that Prey looks so good is that Arkane Studios powered the game with CryEngine, and it is a re-imagining of the 2006 release of Prey from Human Head Studios, with Arkane building Prey as a spiritual successor to System Shock.
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Prey has been heralded as one of the best games of 2017 so far, and in a world where we haven’t had a System Shock game for over a decade, and without a new BioShock game — and after the disappointing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Prey is here in great form.
Built With CryEngine
Arkane Studios built the world of Prey inside of Crytek’s beautiful CryEngine, seeing you controlling a first-person shooter in a sci-fi thriller setting with aliens that have taken over the Talos I space station.
If you remember the original Crysis, and all of the #canitruncrysis hashtags and memes since the mid-2000s, Arkane hit a home run with CryEngine with Prey. It’s an incredibly well-optimized game that runs beautifully smooth on even mid-range graphics cards like the Radeon RX 580. Maintaining 60FPS+ at 1080p and 1440p isn’t a problem, and that’s something that Arkane should be applauded for.
Another benefit is that we might be getting to a point where more game developers will start using CryEngine since the engine is optimized in Prey. You don’t need a GTX 1080 Ti or AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX Vega to run Prey at over 60FPS, or on Ultra graphics settings. Crytek could benefit more than Arkane here, where I hope more game developers start working with CryEngine.
Radeon RX 580 vs. GeForce GTX 1060
We decided to check out the game on AMD’s latest Radeon RX 580 graphics card while stacking it up against two GeForce GTX 1060 graphics cards. The first is NVIDIA’s own GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition, while we also tested MSI’s new GTX 1060 Gaming+ with the overclocked 6GB of GDDR5 @ 9Gbps, compared to the 6GB of GDDR5 @ 8Gbps on the GTX 1060 FE.
This gives us a perfect spread across the 1080p and 1440p resolutions, while we also ran Prey at both Medium and Ultra visual settings. I left out 4K and 3440×1440 because these cards aren’t something I’d recommend for those resolutions, but we’ll be doing a follow-up article with GTX 1070, GTX 1080, GTX 1080 Ti and TITAN X(p) results.
Test Bed Specs
Test Bench Specs
For our Prey benchmarking, I used my Ryzen 7 1800X workstation/gaming build. Inside, we have the ASUS Crosshair VI Hero motherboard, one of OCZ’s amazing 1TB RD400 M.2 SSDs, Corsair’s AX1500i PSU, and 16GB of DDR4 RAM.
The heart and soul of the machine: the ASUS Crosshair VI Hero motherboard.
AMD provides the brains for our Prey benchmarking system, with their Ryzen 7 1800X processor.
The 1TB OCZ RD400 M.2 SSD is absolutely amazing, a must-have for enthusiasts that pushes 2600 MB/sec.
Look how small it is!
Benchmark @ 1080p
I thought I’d provide both of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1060 graphics cards, with the official GTX 1060 Founders Edition 6GB of GDDR5 @ 8Gbps and MSI’s overclocked GTX 1060 Gaming+ with its 6GB of GDDR5 @ 9Gbps.
The new GTX 1060 9Gbps model is the card that NVIDIA has pitted against the Radeon RX 580, and in most games it provides a nice bump in performance over the stock GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition from NVIDIA.
Prey @ 1080p Ultra Settings
SAPPHIRE provides the chops for 120FPS+ average in Prey on the Very High preset at 1080p, beating out the GTX 1060 FE.
But when the overclocked GTX 1060 from MSI with 9Gbps GDDR5 hits the benchmark chart, the RX 580 loses by 6FPS.
Benchmark @ 1440p
Prey @ 1440p Very High Settings
If we compare the stock GTX 1060 FE with its 8Gbps GDDR5 against the overclocked SAPPHIRE RX 580, the RX 580 wins by 4FPS with 74FPS average.
74FPS average at 1440p is not too shabby at all, as we want 60FPS+ at all times… but the GTX 1060 9Gbps pushes a damn decent 85FPS at 1440p VH details.
Final Thoughts
Prey is one of the best looking games out right now thanks to it being powered by CryEngine, and AMD has positioned itself damn well with the Radeon RX 580. At 60FPS+ on 2560×1440 is absolutely perfect, and 120FPS+ at 1080p is amazing for a mid-range graphics card.
NVIDIA holds its own with the stock GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition, but the overclocked SAPPHIRE RX 580 Nitro+ is quite a beast in comparison. The new GTX 1060 with its 6GB GDDR5 @ 9Gbps is a new release, and beats the RX 580 — but AMD has some nice tricks up its sleeve which make the Team Red purchase a much sweeter one.
You can get the SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 580 Nitro+ on Amazon for $270, the same price as the new GTX 1060 with 9Gbps. The decision between the two? That depends on what you’ve got, and what you plan to upgrade in the near future — if you plan on upgrading, that is.
If you are going to buy a gaming monitor along with the new graphics card, then I would suggest the Radeon RX 580, thanks to FreeSync monitors being cheaper. For example, a ViewSonic 24-inch 1080p FreeSync monitor is just $139.99 right now, which is just ridiculously cheap compared to competing NVIDIA G-Sync displays. Even the larger 27-inch 1080p FreeSync display is only $50 more at $189.99 total.
So while the graphics cards offer similar performance at 1080p and 1440p, the monitor prices completely change the game. Spending $270 on the graphics card, and another $200+ just to have G-Sync is simply not worth it.
As it stands, AMD’s Radeon RX 580 and FreeSync monitor is the best GPU + monitor bundle you can buy, running great looking games like Prey at 100FPS+ at 1080p and 60FPS+ at 1440p.
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This Chart Shows How The Radeon RX 580 vs. GeForce GTX 1060 Now Compete Under Linux
Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 20 April 2018 at 12:05 PM EDT. 39 Comments
It was just last year that open-source RadeonSI/RADV developers were trying to get the Radeon RX 580 «Polaris» GPU to be competitive with the GeForce GTX 1060 as it is under Windows given each GPU’s capabilities. We’ve seen the RX 580 and GTX 1060 dancing under Linux the past few months and yesterday’s 20-way GPU comparison with Rise of the Tomb Raider was quite significant — perhaps most surprising being how well the RX 580 performed. Heck, just one or two years ago it was an accomplishment seeing any official Radeon driver support at-launch for new Linux game releases.
So here are some extensive tests looking closer at the GTX 1060 vs. RX 580 battle in this latest Vulkan-powered Linux game port.
Given the extreme competitiveness of the Radeon RX 580 and GeForce GTX 1060 with yesterday’s couple of Rise of the Tomb Raider benchmarks, I decided to go deeper with these two graphics cards and test them across dozens of configurations with this latest Linux game port, released yesterday by Feral Interactive.
Like yesterday, the Radeon RX 580 tests were done with Linux 4.16.2 with Mesa 18.1-dev via the Padoka PPA. The NVIDIA tests on the same system were done with the latest NVIDIA 396.18 beta driver.
It’s quite a thorough look at the Rise of the Tomb Raider performance with these competing graphics cards across different resolutions, quality levels, and anti-aliasing configurations… Made possible by the Phoronix Test Suite.
I certainly didn’t expect to see the Radeon RX 580 being near universally faster than the GeForce GTX 1060.
In only two cases did the RX 580 lose to the GTX 1060 in this Vulkan-powered AAA Linux game port.
In some cases, the race was very tight.
And in other areas more significant lead for the RX 580…
And quite significant in other scenarios. Now if only Vega had this level of mature support in RADV (and RadeonSI)…
A lot more data available via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file. If you missed yesterday’s tests, see the 20-way NVIDIA/AMD GPU comparison with Rise of the Tomb Raider
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT.
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General Information
The General Information section of the Video Card Comparison list provides release date, type, overall rating and other useful data to determine the winner between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT. Please note that the comparison takes place on all indicators, and below are the ratings from synthetic benchmarks that define different criteria in games and work applications.
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Position in the performance rating
47
43.49 9000
Type
n.a.9,0003
Starting price
$ 379
$ 525 (1.8x MSRP)
Actual price
$ 811 (2.1x MSRP)
28.31
PRICE
.35 9000
9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 Navi 23
Desktop
Market Segment
Desktop
Specifications
Which graphics card compares better NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT in manufacturing process, power consumption, and base and turbo frequency processor — this is the most important part contained in the rating of video cards.
1280
conveyors
No data
1506 MHZ
Tact frequency of nuclei
1968 MHZ
1709 MHZ
Acceleration
4,400 Million 9000 16 nm
Process
7 nm
120 Watt
Power Consumption (TDP)
n/a
136.7
The number of texts processed in 1 second
331.4
4.375 GFLOPS
Swimming of
No data
1280
condes / CUDA nuclear 9000 2048 9000
25000 2,0002,0002,0002,0002,0002,0002,0002,0002,0002,0002 25000 MHA
4,400 million
Number of transistors
11,060 million
120 Watt
TDP
160 Watt
Dimensions, connectors and compatibility
Let’s discuss the dimensions (length, width, height) of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics cards. As well as the main types of connectors and connected interfaces
PCIE 3.0 X16
Interface
PCIE 4.0 X8
250 MM
length
190 mm
1x 6-pin
Addition Memory (Frequency and Overclocking)
Graphics card memory plays an important role in both gaming and graphics applications.
The higher the standard ( GDDR ), the better. It directly affects the speed and efficiency of data processing. What is the difference in type, base and turbo frequency, GDDR bandwidth between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT:
GDDR5
8 GB
192 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
8000 MHz
Memory frequency
16000 MHZ
192.2 GB/S
Memory Balts
256.0 Gb/S
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Demeded memory
—
Support for ports and displays
Let’s find out the difference in the ports that are equipped with the NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX. 1060 6 GB and AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT. Pay attention to the number of ports and the maximum resolution of supported monitors.
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Display connections
3
1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort
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G-SYNC support
n.a. It is worth noting that NVIDIA and AMD use different technologies.
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Support VR
No data
+
Several monitors
No data
6.1
CUDA
No data
9000 +
9,0003
002 Multi-Projection
n.a.
+
G-SYNC
n.a. Hardware support (API) does not greatly affect the overall performance, it is not taken into account in synthetic benchmarks and other performance tests.
12 (12_1)
DirectX
n/a
4.6
Opengl
No data
1.2.131
Vulkan
No data
6.4
SHADER MODEL
No data
1.2
OpenCl
9000
NVIDIS GTXE 6 GTXE 6 GTORCE 6 GTORCE 6 GTORCE 6 GTORCE 6 Radeon RX 6600 XT comparison in benchmarks
Overall performance in benchmarks
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
47.57%
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
58.
83%
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
3DMark Ice Storm GPU Benchmark: Graphic card performance test results. Check the 3DMark Ice Storm GPU GPU results at hitesti.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
235179 (49%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
472371 (100%)
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU Benchmark: Graphic card performance test results. Check out the 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU GPU test results at hitesti.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
76477 (48%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
156297 (100%)
3DMark Fire Strike Score
3DMark Fire Strike Score Benchmark: Graphic card performance test results.
Check the 3DMark Fire Strike Score for GPUs at hitesti.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
11039 (43%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
25652 (100%)
3D Mark Fire Strike Graphics
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Benchmark: Graphic card performance test results. Check 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics GPU Test Results at hitesti.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
12816 (45%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
28342 (100%)
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 Performance GPU Benchmark: Graphics card performance test results.
Check out the 3DMark 11 Performance GPU GPU results at hitesti.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
17288 (44%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
39051 (100%)
3D Mark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage Performance Benchmark: Graphic card performance test results. Check 3DMark Vantage Performance GPU results at hitesti.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
43717 (49%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
88163 (100%)
SPECviewperf 12 — Solidworks
Benchmark SPECviewperf 12 — Solidworks: Graphics card performance test results.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
46 (100%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
Unigine Heaven 3.0
Unigine Heaven 3.0 Benchmark: Graphic card performance test results. Check Unigine Heaven 3.0 GPU test results at hitesti.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
9091 (100%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
SPECviewperf 12 — Siemens NX
Benchmark SPECviewperf 12 — Siemens NX: Graphic card performance test results.
Check SPECviewperf 12 — Siemens NX GPU test results at hitesti.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
6 (100%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
SPECviewperf 12 — Showcase
SPECviewperf 12 benchmark — Showcase: Graphics card performance test results. Check SPECviewperf 12 — Showcase GPU test results at hitesti.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
64 (100%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
SPECviewperf 12 — Medical
SPECviewperf 12 — Medical Benchmark: Graphics card performance test results.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
32 (100%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
SPECviewperf 12 — Maya
Benchmark SPECviewperf 12 — Maya: Graphics card performance test results. Check SPECviewperf 12 — Maya GPU test results at hitesti.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
103 (100%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
SPECviewperf 12 — Energy
Benchmark SPECviewperf 12 — Energy: Graphics card performance test results.
Check SPECviewperf 12 — Energy GPU test results at hitesti.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
6 (100%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
SPECviewperf 12 — Creo
Benchmark Check SPECviewperf 12 — Creo: Graphics card performance test results. Check out Check SPECviewperf 12 — Creo GPU test results at hitesti.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
35 (100%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
SPECviewperf 12 — Catia
SPECviewperf 12 Benchmark — Catia: Graphics card performance test results.
Check SPECviewperf 12 — Catia GPU test results at hitesti.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
51 (100%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
Passmark
Passmark benchmark: Graphic card performance test results. Check Passmark GPU test results at hitesti.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10252 (65%)
AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
15685 (100%)
Popular comparisons with selected graphics cards
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs. NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs. AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
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RX 580 8Gb vs GTX 1060 3Gb. Does the FX 6300 need an 8Gb video card for modern games?
Do I need a six-core FX6300 video card with 8Gb of video memory to play games at maximum and high settings? At the same time, let’s see if the problem is 8Gb of RAM.
In fact, this is not a comparison of RX 580 8gb vs 1060 3gb, although comparative conclusions can be drawn from the test results. We need to find out whether it is necessary to chase 6-8Gb video memory in this price segment, or save money and take the same 3-4 Gb video cards until better times.
This test will be valid for all AMD and Intel processors with similar performance.
Tested games
Like last time, games from different developers with different optimizations for video cards and processors were selected for the tests: (2018) by Nixxes Software and Crystal Dynamics
Computer configuration after overclocking
- Processor: AMD FX 6300 4.
2GHz. The default is 3.5-3.8GHz. - Northbridge (CPU/NB): 2600MHz (overclock). The default is 2000MHz.
- Bus HyeprTransport (HT): 2400Mhz (overclock). The default is 2000MHz.
- RAM: 2133MHz. The default is 1866MHz.
How to overclock the AMD FX 6300 processor read on our website.
Video test version
An important point before comparing RX580 8Gb vs GTX 1060 3 Gb
Before commenting on the test results, I want to say that I conducted these tests on an overclocked FX 8350 with an RX 5700 XT video card and 16Gb of RAM. I have data about the maximum resources that the tested games need.
Battlefield V (2018)
Battlefield V. Minimum and average FPS
part of the memory is used for the operating system. The video memory is loaded at 2.7gb, which is also a full load of video memory on a GTX 1060 card.
3gb of video memory for this game can be a problem, this is clearly visible on the overall result.
Battlefield V always shows the best performance on AMD cards (naturally similar performance), but the difference is above 50% in rare events, this is already a lot. Also, the game is not enough 8Gb of RAM. Battlefield V uses about 9Gb of free RAM. In this case, the video memory will be loaded on 5-6 gb.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Minimum and average FPS
In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, we see that at maximum settings we need at least 6 Gb of video memory. And the RX 580 feels better. This can be seen from the results of rare events.
8Gb of RAM is not enough for this game at maximum settings. Only the game, not counting the operating system, needs 8Gb of free RAM. In this case, the video memory will be loaded at 6-7Gb.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The minimum and average FPS
Witcher 3 is enough for 8Gb of RAM and 3-4Gb of video memory.
Here the performance of the video core and the performance of the cores play a role.
In general, the gap between the RX580 and the 3Gb GTX 1060 is significant.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019)
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Minimum and average FPS
In Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Jrder, at first glance, everything looks good, and even a GTX 1060 with 3 Gb of video memory with 8 Gb of RAM is enough. But as the game progresses, the 3 Gb memory fills up. With more than 8Gb of RAM, the game uses up to 4Gb of video memory. Therefore, a reserve of 1 Gb will also not be superfluous.
Hitman 2 (2018)
Hitman 2. Minimum and average FPS
Hitman 2 uses up to 4Gb of video memory and 8 Gb of RAM. Although the GTX 1060 handles this game quite well.
Conclusions
Based on the test results, we can definitely say that if you want to play at maximum settings and get maximum smoothness and high FPS, you need to have 12 Gb of RAM and a video card with 6/8 gb of video memory.