AMD RX 590 Vs Nvidia GTX 1060: Which One Is Better?

By PCGamesN AMD’s RX 590, especially in this affordable PowerColor Red Devil trim, is the fastest sub-$300 graphics card. Though not much of an upgrade over its predecessory its existence helps make the case for buying an RX 580… at least while stocks last.

By TomsHardware The new Radeon RX 590 beats Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1060 6GB across our benchmark suite at 1920 x 1080 and 2560 x 1440. However, AMD took a truncheon to the card’s power limit in order to motivate its Polaris GPU. We think you’re better off scooping up great deals on older Radeon RX 580 8GB cards for high-quality gaming at FHD.

By HotHardware Ultimately, if you’re budgeting less than $300 for a GPU, the Radeon RX 590 is arguably the best overall choice at this time. It’s the strongest performer in the category and multiple AAA games are being tossed in for good measure.

By Hexus The Radeon RX 590 represents a relatively quick method of gaining an extra 10 per cent performance over the RX 580(X). And given its similar pricing, the RX 590 is generally ahead of the GTX 1060 6GB.

By PCWorld The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy uses brute force and an improved 12nm process to muscle past Nvidia’s GTX 1060, but it doesn’t displace the RX 580 completely.

By Bit-Tech Coming back to the chubster, XFX’s Fatboy card is, honestly, nothing special, but we have to give it kudos for coming in at £250 with an overclock applied – even if it creeps to around £270 it wouldn’t be a bad deal, especially with those three games thrown in. Instinct tells us that other coolers will do better than this one, which is semi-skimmed at best, but we may be proven wrong, and there’s no guarantee they’ll be as cheap. It’s the value that really earns this card its Recommended badge (plus it’s our first RX 590), but it’s well worth seeing what competing cards bring to the table too.

By Kitguru AMD has tweaked Polaris with a 12nm die shrink and gained a useful ten percent extra performance.

By PCGamer The Radeon RX 590 brings modest improvements to the midrange sector, and despite the price increase, it’s the sensible alternative to Nvidia’s RTX…

By Phoronix When looking at the geometric mean of all the OpenCL benchmarks carried out, the Radeon VII was 12% faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 and a 52% improvement in compute performance compared to the Radeon RX Vega 64.I haven’t had any time yet to see how the…

By Venture Beat If you’re upgrading your PC this holiday, I would probably recommend the RX 590 to you. That’s especially true if you have an older monitor or plan to upgrade soon. If you have a Gsync display already, go ahead and stick with Nvidia. You won’t regret…

By AnandTech But returning to the Radeon RX 590, it applies pressure to the GTX 1060 6GB and older GTX 900 series cards, while avoiding direct pressure on existing RX 580 inventory by virtue of pricing. And right now, without anything to compete with the GTX 1080 Ti/RTX 2070 range or above, AMD is likely more than happy to take any advantage where they can. For now, though, much depends on the pricing of top-end RX 580s.

By RockPaperShotgun If you’re still knocking around 1920×1080, however, the RX 590 doesn’t really have that much more to offer in terms of 60fps performance beyond a bit of future-proofing for when you eventually decide to upgrade your monitor’s resolution. Instead, you might as well save your pennies and get either the RX 580 or GTX 1060 if you can find one for less, or go for the even cheaper Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti if you’re not particularly fussed about having max graphics quality.