GTX 1060 3GB vs RX 580 4GB - How Do These "Cut-Down" Cards Compare in 2024?

[@MrDilldock]

I built a system for my nephew with my old 1060 3GB, that was 3 years ago and he still only plays Roblox. I'm still a hero.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Awesome!

[@AAjax]

Yeah you are 👍

[@TurboLoveTrain]

ahahahahahaha Thanks for this post cool uncle.

[@qweasd-xf5pv]

​@@RandomGaminginHD man why do ypu test older games. Test games like alan wake 2 or last of us or other newer demanding aaa tile. This comparison with older games are useless.

[@breadwine1741]

rescue him

[@MuhlisErtugrul]

My anxiety after seeing GPUs near a waterside 📈📈📈📈📈

[@RandomGaminginHD]

😁

[@SimonBannow]

Yeah same

[@yuan.pingchen3056]

I hope he puts the RTX4090 near the waterside.

[@Josue31627]

For some reason some Europeans really like to do stuff like that with their tech. Different attitudes I suppose. It at least gives nice little visuals.

[@SimonBannow]

@@yuan.pingchen3056 *heart rate increases

[@Chill_Mode_JD]

My daughters first card was a used gaming x 1060 3gb we found local and paired it with an old i7 workstation. Recently upgraded her to a 2600x and 6600xt combo but still have a special place in my heart for that first setup we slapped together 💚💯

[@ironphilly2366]

Knee capped card vs missing limb card.

[@HardWhereHero]

The knee capped is the 580 and the missing limb is the 1060, would be my guess 😂 Nvidia really screwed up by not giving the darn thing one more GB of VRAM.

[@mrgamerxz7674]

Nah 1060 is kneecapped it's cut down specs while 580 has half vram

[@aboriginalmang]

​@@HardWhereHerothey couldnt do that, the 1060 was built with two 3GB RAMs so the cut down version will inevitably have one 3GB RAM.

[@WayStedYou]

@@HardWhereHero you cant with the bus width they had it was either 3 or 6

[@SilverKnight16]

The Dawid Does Tech Stuff version of the video.

[@nepalidiy]

Rx 580 was hidden treasure during pandemic

[@enigmalex3649]

It still is best buy for budget gaming

[@benjaminhoff5004]

​@enigmalex3649 Maybe in certain countries. In US the 580 is a hand me down card. I would only buy one if I already had an office pc or something.

[@OlaftheGreat]

​@@enigmalex3649 If you're lucky you can get a deal on the used market. I was going to get a 580 but I lucked out on eBay and bid on a GTX 1070 ti for $98 USD (including shipping!)

[@Lurch-Bot]

More like a tolerable stopgap measure.

[@fuzzylumpkins6034]

and yet still pure garbage. As a miner during the pan, we still preferred the 1080 and 2060 over the purely garbage 580 8gb. The 580 wasn't even in our radar until 2023 regardless what you tubers want you to believe. Believe what you want for your own state of opinion. We preferred everything be EVGA for fan stability so we never needed to replace or clean the gpu before mass selling to sheep. EVGA did not dabble much in the 8Gb series of 580s. All the nitros you are buying now were not miners. They are just heavily abused GPUs by scrubs with no clue that had amazing cards.

[@toivopro]

Got a Msi Gaming X Rx580 8gb back in 2017 and the it worked great. Now its running in my friends pc and still gaming.

[@DaiAtlus79]

ive had the 1060 3gb over the past three years and im still happy with it for now, its paired with an i7 4790 and 16gb of ram to back it all up, and its pretty decent. I do play Starfield on it, but i would advise one to use the Steam Deck/Low Spec PC mod to help it with frame rates.

[@yuan.pingchen3056]

If the SteamDeck could be played while DC adapter plugged in and didn't require an internal battery, I would consider buying one since I have a playstation Vita with a failed battery and I'm too lazy to save it

[@DaiAtlus79]

@@yuan.pingchen3056 i read you can do this with the dock, and hooked to a television.

[@jponz85]

Funny I almost have the same setup for sale. 4790k paired with gtx 1060 3gb and 32gb ddr3 ram. I upgraded, but that was my first built computer and lasted me quite a long time.

[@DaiAtlus79]

@@jponz85 im thinking up upgrading to something like a 2060 if i can get a deal on one.

[@The_0p3r8t0r]

My son has the same setup except he has a 750ti. Do you think the 1060 is carrying the CPU?

[@RedrumAlism]

2 days ago I finished building what is essentially my 1st gaming PC, and I am absolutely surprised as to how well it turned out for the little amount of money I spent (approx. 120USD) Got a HP Z230 Workstation with its stock motherboard and a Xeon v3 1245 3 processor inside, got 2 additional RAM sticks for a total of 16 gigs, and got a very good deal on a RX 580 8 gigs. Safe to say that I have stacked up on games that I never imagined I would be able to play, and all of them run on a respectable 60 fps without much tinkering with the settings.

[@hrvojemilicevic3309]

It's a great PC. I sold similar PC with gtx 1070 instead of rx 580 and bought AM4 platform ryzen 5 3600 + rtx 3060. Performance doesn't justify cost difference.

[@trailduster6bt]

Feel good story of the day

[@brokeandtired]

Welcome to the PC club.

[@handzze7341]

I'm in the same boat lol. Managed to save up some money and built a rig for less than ~100$ equivalence with slightly worse specs 2 months ago. It got a h81m ds2 mobo paired with an e5 1270v3, the gpu is a rx470 4gb. The performance uplift over my old laptop is insane, and actually having ssd is so nice. Xeons and polaris gpus are godsent for students and budget ballers like me and u lol. Have fun with ur new pc dude, cheers!

[@RedrumAlism]

@@handzze7341 I just didn't expect at all to be able to play anything that is considered "a demanding title" for the money I paid, yet I found myself being able to play everything I ever wanted - God of War, Elden Ring, Horizon Zero Dawn, Spider Man Remastered, NFS Payback etc. What is most suprising to me is that there are people who end up paying like 100+$ for a stick or two of RAM, yet with the help of our KZbinr here as well as some others I came to the conclusion that I can achieve great results for the fraction of the price needed for a brand new machine.

[@NukaOrQuantum]

I had an RX580 for a good bit. Still nice to see it still kicking around

[@HardWhereHero]

They are a much better value than the previous gen consoles especially if you are not hung up on playing the newest of the new. My absolute go-to for a cheap build when someone just wants to games and doesn't get caught up on Starfield only hitting 27 fps. The games it can run, it runs really well.

[@Lurch-Bot]

I missed out on Polaris but I was playing Cyberpunk on a R9 380 for a couple months after it launched.

[@tacticalmattress]

@@HardWhereHero Plenty of power for pretty much anything pre 2020. There are some outliers but that's because they have performance issues in general, and need extra beef to get a respectable FPS. Then some games beyond 2020 will still be playable, but limited.

[@tacticalmattress]

@@HardWhereHero and 90% of the games I play myself are pre 2020 generally. I have hardware several times more powerful now, but if i still only had my old setup with a RX570. I'd still be playing the same games pretty much, just at 1080p and 60hz. A few could even be pushed to 1440p. and yes, a properly spec'd build with no bottleneck, a RX580 build will outperform the last generation of consoles (One/PS4) by a good margin. Playing in actual native resolution, and higher fps. Even using the 4GB variant.

[@franksinatra2278]

Still have a 1060 3GB in use on my HTPC. Does all my 4k HDR movies without a hitch!

[@Veritech1]

That is overkill. GT 1030 should be more then enough for HTPC.

[@Esus_]

@@Veritech1even that is rather overkill unless you’re running a madvr setup. Most modern cpus with integrated graphics like the n100 is more than enough to handle any 4k hdr Blu-ray playback

[@DarkBowser64]

Personally used a 1060 6GB for a long while, though I also had used an RX 480 4GB before that. Considering RX 580 was basically just a souped up refresh, I was pretty alright with sticking to RX 480 at the time... but a friend gifted me the 1060 so I figured I may as well put it to good use. Something very important to note, though, is that NVIDIA still provides driver support for Pascal (10-series), Maxwell 2.0 (9-series) and even Maxwell 1.0 (745/750/750 Ti). AMD, however, has totally cut off modern driver support for Polaris despite its relative popularity, so the 1060 3GB likely has those slight advantages in some games here thanks to that.

[@HanSolo__]

MSI GTX 1060 - WARNING! The most powerful graphics card

[@Veritech1]

Beast

[@FloatSamplesGT710]

Budget beast

[@adwaitagnome]

I have that exact same RX 580 4GB card in my main PC, been using it since 2017. I'm probably gonna be upgrading soon but it's given me a very long life :D

[@Woodwerker]

Love this channel - I like what you do here because I have a bunch of office PCs and others I have built that I want to flip. You channel helps me out - thanks!

[@griff5476]

Only other issue is that the rx580 is no longer supported. I have the higher tier versions of each card. Both are great cards. Such a shame that amd dropped support for polaris when the 1060 gets game ready drivers

[@zd1mv]

The 750 TI still gets drivers! (although it's days are certainly numbered)

[@grumpyoldwizard]

Current games use a ton of VRAM. The more you have, the better.

[@TurboLoveTrain]

HBM blows GDDR out of the water but isn't on very many cards. Because x86 have trash memory registers and even worse memory addressing you probably won't see supported by CPUs/mother boards anytime soon but newer graphics cards don't use X86 and they fixed the memory throughput... but yeah, the memory interface to the CPU on x86 is already awful and adding the graphics card to the 1970 Bus design is crap which is why the pushed the ram off to the graphics card in the first place. There is no real reason to buy a graphics card with less than 8gigs ram, really 16 is better but anything more has significantly diminishing returns for how all the software is optimized for the graphics pipeline.

[@speedygamey7160]

Current game devs need to learn how to optimize their games, I've seen games use up to 12gigs of vram which is just overkill especially when the games dont even look that much better than the games using 3gb of vram

[@TurboLoveTrain]

@@speedygamey7160 I watched this happen real time from the late 90s when I graduated with my computer science degree to what's going on today. It used to be you had to understand math, the operating system and all the graphics libraries to create software. Everything was built almost from the ground up. Open GL evolved into a graphical interface for developers and it became cheaper to create a tool set for developers and than train the developers to use the tools with very little comprehension of what was happening under the hood. Now modern programmers aren't trained in hardware and are barely trained in how the graphics pipeline interacts across the hardware systems with the software--they just learn the dev tools and focus on making it look pretty. They now make up with trash code and trash optimization by convincing everyone they need a faster system. Cyberpunk 2077 is a perfect example: it was written on a shit engine for a console and ported to a PC. It runs like garbage even on a fast machine and that is why 20 year old optimized games run faster and look almost as good.

[@speedygamey7160]

​@@TurboLoveTrain What you said is very interesting and something I've noticed as well. I'm still in my first semester of college studying cs so I'm pretty young and new but I noticed back in the day developers would find creative workarounds to run bigger games on less powerful hardware and implementing advanced graphical features while still making the games run at a decent framerate. We've gotten some amazing ports of games on old hardware because of this, like Half Life on the PS2. Same goes for PC games where optimization was one of the key factors in developing a game instead of it being an afterthought. Engines were actually made with the idea of performing better than the previous model instead of just "looking better". Now it's almost as if it's the opposite of that, we have really strong and powerful hardware in the market paired with games that don't look that much better utilizing and hogging almost all of that horse power. Then there are games having terrible memory leaks, stutter issues, crashes and framerate dips even at the most high end specs which should be able to run that game perfectly fine. Now they try to "fix" these issues by just saying that you should use upscaling technology which is just embarrassing. AAA gaming is a joke. I can't recall any AAA game I played in the last year on PC that didn't had me spending an hour messing with the settings just to get an enjoyable experience. My faith is at indie gaming now, at least they know how to optimize a game.

[@TurboLoveTrain]

​@@speedygamey7160 Sadly this is almost invisible to most PC users. It's refreshing to see that some people are still very aware of what's going with consumer electronics. AAA has been shit for years and I wish people would stop *uck!ng giving them money. There is so much good indi content there is no reason to even touch new AAA. I also with people would stop buying new consoles. There are 20 years of amazing titles that run just fine on a PC that costs less than a playstation 5.

[@dianaalyssa8726]

1060 3gb my first GPU, came in a prebuilt. Funniest thing the MSI OC card says it's the most powerful graphics card on the label, xd.

[@pyierry]

A nice comparison would be the first generation of quad core i5´s with the core2 quad´s to see if there was a big jump in performance when Intel launched its first generation of ´´core i´´

[@Gamingomad]

Just love 💕 your content with most beautiful background garden view 😍

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thank you!

[@ClaireFelidae]

I built my rig in 2021 and i got a used RX 580 8gb for $50. It occasionally studders but otherwise works well for me at 1080p paired with a Ryzen 2600x

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Nice combo and great price

[@bernardshum2719]

Stutters can be caused by many things. It could be running your games from a HDD, it can be an antivirus software or other background tasks.

[@MS-zp5by]

I’m using rx 580 8gb it was my first built pc for budget gaming , i’m really happy with this card , it still can run new games with decent fps , but as for everything same for rx 580 it’s time coming , i’m thinking about rx 6600 in future

[@MrChriss000]

Still running my rx 480 nitro 4 gb and it does S.T.O. well enough for me, a dirty hobbyist!

[@exzld]

s.t.o. ?

[@MrChriss000]

@@exzld Star Trek Online.

[@rometherevenant8749]

The two legends for 1080p.

[@syncmonism]

The 4GB 580 isn't "cut down". "Cut down" means fewer active transistors on the die. Don't call it "cut down". That's not what "cut down" means.

[@billkissick6268]

Been rocking my 1060 3fb for well over a decade now, and although I'm looking to upgrade, it does just fine on lower settings.

[@Choralone422]

The 1060 3GB was a great card for the time. I bought mine for $200 new in the fall of 2016 right before GPU prices went a little nuts due to a crypto boom in late 2016 & 2017. The "real" 1060 was selling for ~$275 so an extra $75 for more VRAM and only about 10% more performance then. I just couldn't justify paying over 33% more for so little extra performance at the time. I used that card until 2022 when I was finally able to get a RX 6600 XT for slightly under MSRP at a time when most Nvidia cards were still selling for 20-50% above their MSRP. I still have the old 1060 3GB in my living room emulation PC where it handles everything up to PS2 & Gamecube era games very well!

[@asrr62]

hey i got my card during the crypto boom and best buy was great during that time for the gamers. they limited the quantity of graffix cards you could buy. so best buy was great during that time and always had stock for a good price. im still using this card she is a beaut!

[@regisegek4675]

Heyyo, nice Hedera helix and dianthus plants and GPUs

[@regisegek4675]

Hedera* instead of headers, autocorrect

[@darkauscus]

Well one is still officially supported with Drivers the other is not, so there is that.

[@huntercz1226]

Still supported on Linux (the open source one).

[@mohammadelnayef]

Its nice that you covered this topic since these cards can be often found for cheap on the used market. I would also like to add something (since I have both these cards), the rx 580 4gb is quite more powerful at higher resolutions, for example playing even older games at 4k , the gtx 1060 3gb struggles more. The extra 1GB VRAM and wider BUS can boost the performance a lot. So yeah at full hd the difference is negligible, but at higher resolutions the difference is quite big.

[@Redmage913]

Thank you for covering this :) I still have my trusty RX 480 4GB, and I still love it to this day. I use it and a GTX 960, and the 480 has been wonderful for slightly more modern titles. 960’s for the XP/Linux rig and also runs amazingly. I went a little crazy during the pandemic and put an AIO on the 480. Doesn’t breach 60 degrees on a 120mm radiator :D

[@Redmage913]

A GTX 960 4GB, to correct myself.

[@revanisalive]

i wonder how these would compare to rx 6400 4gb. great vid as always

[@Vinterloft]

Whoa, what is going on in BG3? The 580 is clearly producing better visuals? Are both on low?

[@wizzgamer]

The graphics card designs were beautiful in that era compared to now 😊

[@lanwish]

They almost identical. Check 2000era, those were something, unique every one of them.

[@Redmage913]

Hahahaha yet only half were all that effective :P I’m glad cooler designs have caught up, I accidentally killed my HD 6870 cause its crappy cooler didn’t cover then VRAM…

[@Lurch-Bot]

Now they're mostly just a monolithic chunk of black ABS.

[@jackjude]

​@@Redmage913Yes they were $@#&% crappy cooler design and dumb stickers on them.

[@Teknotion]

That extra 1GB VRAM makes quite the difference.

[@adwaitagnome]

its more than just the VRAM, the GTX 1060 3GB has been cut down in other ways other than the VRAM, while the RX 580 4GB has not. The RX 580 ignoring the VRAM is simply a more powerful graphics card. It would have been more apt to compare it against an RX 570 4GB or even an RX 480 4GB rather than the RX 580 4GB

[@hrvojemilicevic3309]

​@@adwaitagnomeDid you even watch the video or you just blabbering? Gtx 1060 is almost same performance + has regular driver updates. It definetely performs better on some new games where rx 580 didn't get driver update.

[@thedeadlygames9716]

@@hrvojemilicevic3309no did YOU watch the video, the GTX 1060 is still more cut down then the rx 580, plus you got to keep in mind that the rx 580 is a year newer then the GTX 1060

[@adwaitagnome]

@@hrvojemilicevic3309 The GTX 1060 3GB in most games tested here was around 10-15% behind the RX 580, which roughly tracks with how much more powerful the RX 580 (and 6GB GTX 1060 for that matter) is compared to the 3GB GTX 1060. There were a few exceptions; but they are just that, exceptions.

[@mitacccosminmc5297]

have you seen the latest driver nvidia updates? it enables sysmem fallback...and it helps a lot! i own a msi 3gb 1060 and i was first socked of how this card can perform

[@MultiBeast301]

Yeah I saw that too, I'll test it with Outer Worlds Spacers Choice and see if it fixes missing textures on that game

[@JohnSmith-nj9qo]

It's crazy to see these old beasts still doing fine in most games.

[@Mogojoegotube]

Is it just me or has the used GPU market in the UK spiked in price?

[@Khloya69]

The pound keeps dropping in value, which causes goods and services to increase in price. It’s not coming back up, the UK need a new currency, one that they don’t control, since clearly they’re incapable of handling their own monetary policy.

[@marknewellmusic]

Yes, it has... likely due to used stock all bought up for cheap over the past 12-24 months leading to scarcity driving the prices up. Used GPU prices will drop again though due to RTX 5xxx launch. I'm mainly thinking based on CeX pricing tbh but ebay etc should behave similarly.

[@iitzfizz]

Used GPU prices in the UK usually suck as a general rule...I just got a brand new XFX 6750 XT from Ebuyer for £300 and they are asking for more than that for a used one on eBay, even on Ebuyer's own eBay store which is crazy.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah prices are always going up and down but there are some great deals on eBay auctions

[@Mrfailstandstil]

ayyy! i had 1060 6gig in 2017-2018 gtx10-series was awesome imo!

[@shadowspark220]

Sis had that card in her rig once. Had to upgrade her to a 2070 Super cause she wanted something more powerful out of the box.

[@Mrfailstandstil]

@@shadowspark220 2070 is definitely more powerful than 1060 and great for 1080p gaming 👍🏻

[@Mirra2003-f9s]

AMD always aged better than Nvidia in the budget category. I used the 8GB 580 since launch from 2017 till 2022 and it was the best budget GPU i ever had. Easily got my money's worth out of it

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Huh, the performance was actually a bit closer than I expected.

[@AcornElectron]

I bought a ps5 in dec 2020 so haven’t worried about upgrades or not being able to handle the game for almost 4 years now. It feels good not worrying about.😂

[@LukeTheJoker]

Surprised by how decent they both did to be honest! Interesting to see the less CPU usage on the AMD card while still pushing higher numbers, that must be down to less driver overhead I'm guessing?

[@Hoss-ro5cd]

1060 3GB was my first ever GPU, the thing was an absolute beast.

[@uc9584]

i recently sold my 1060 3GB to my friend for 50$, so happy to see that it can still run games above 60 fps.

[@maxxlr8tion578]

I pieced together a 1060 3gb with a 2400g and 16gb of junk 2400MT/s ddr4 for a friend to use until she gets her own setup, and she is recording and editing 3+ hour very modded Minecraft lets-plays without any problems, sure it takes a WHILE for the render to finish, but it is still impressive.

[@tokidamjanoski]

You should do 1060 -6 GB vs Rx 580-8 GB

[@marknewellmusic]

Magnificent specimen at 7:58

[@pahlevymu]

Idk if you record the gameplay on different in-game time, but i noticed there is different color pallette from nvidia to amd gpu. The nvidia is less vibrant yet looking more realistic, whereas the amd counterpart is more vibrant

[@45eno]

Good options during the crypto craze. I bought a Zotac 1060 3gb for $90 when they were around $200 on ebay. Served well as a Media PC card. But once prices dropped I sold off all these sorts of cards while I could still recover what I paid for them. 1060 3gb , 970 , R9 290, 1050ti and now the house is stocked with 3x 6600XT, 2x 6700XT, 6750XT, 6900XT, 6950XT all for excellent prices used or open box. These 1060 3gb and 580 cards are only for secondary role PC's or the ultra ultra budget rigs. My oldest card out in the shop is a GTX1080 that I paid $80 for about 1.5yrs ago. Great card for 60FPS / 1080p gaming even on newer titles.

[@mikek92]

The 3gb 10 series cards were ngreddia's "Netflix cards". Initially, the GTX 960 2gb cards were the minimum for 4k w/HDR for streaming, but they couldn't sell newer cards that way...

[@KokoroKatsura]

a n i m e n i m e

[@Satori-Automotive]

The answer is simple. For 1080p gaming, 3GB is often not enough. Especially if u like nice textures and eventually install some mods. Most 1080p games max. out vram at roughly 3.0 GB up to 3.9 GB so the 4GB 580 is defenitely the better pick 3.00 and u can easily see that some games would even like to use more Vram.. Forza cuts out 3.0gb for the 1060 but goes up to 3.9 for the 580, simply because it can.

[@E6hosting]

I remember for a spell in tbe UK where the 1060 3gb was about £100 cheaper than tbe 6gb during the first mining boom.

[@asrr62]

lmao our American U.S. retailer "best buy" was great during the crypto boom and limited 3 graphics cards per customer, they also kept the same pricing! a win for the gamers back then for sure. some stores were price gouging for sure! best buy might have not sold cards to the crypto miners but they did the right thing by helping gamers lmao.

[@The.Crawling.Chaos.]

I have to say that Red Dead Redemption looks so good. It's just one of those rare games that just looks so nice without demanding high end hardware. I wish more game companies would take notes.

[@wotdragonracer5624]

Hey mate, I love your informative videos, even if I don't need the info, it helps keep me occupied when im bored. Could you consider doing a review on the Nvidia Quado P620? I've had that card for a while before upgrading, and it helped me play games since I upgraded from a laptop. I really want to see your opinion on it. You can pick it up for about 40-60 pounds from Bargain Hardware which is based in the UK and get it within 2-3 days, since actually finding this card online from sellers like ebay might be a bit tricky. Have a great time mate and enjoy your tea :)

[@Mr.Genesis]

This was the head to head i was looking forward to.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thanks for watching!

[@stevenrisnyovszky1120]

I had the 580 4gb, sold it, and got the 3060 12gb. Bought the 1060 3gb for a friend. He only plays in 1600×900 and I think this is more than enough if you consider that he got an Intel i5 4th 4690.

[@fattomandeibu]

I personally find that owt that gets above an average of 45 and lows of around 30 are what I find to be in the "playable" range, though it does matter the game, some games just look ugly if they drop below 60, I guess it's how well motion blur etc. is handled. Most of the games here could probably, as mentioned in the video, run better with some graphic setting micromanagement. Considering that, and the fact I don't play owt as demanding as Starfield, I think these would still be useful cards. I'd of course make sure that any system built using these would have upgrade room, as I reckon these cards have only got a year or 2 left in 'em before every new game starts performing like Starfield.

[@arnabanb]

I've recently assembled a new gaming rig with RTX 4070, yet occasionally I find myself revisiting older titles on my previous setup equipped with GTX 1060 3GB

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah it’s always fun to see how older cards are doing :)

[@exzld]

4060 ti here.. you ever feel like the new cards are overkill? i dont really play demanding games. i feel like im wasting money at the moment

[@arnabanb]

@@exzld I get what you mean.But it's nice to have the option for the future.

[@exzld]

@@arnabanb thats literally my only justification right now. Waiting for Monster Hunter Wilds to release next year!.. its gonna be great on my vram size.. but playing the older titles are also a blast.

[@BillyBoy444]

3:00 An RX 6500 XT is currently £65 from CEX for the Sapphire model... Probably the best option for a 4GB card.

[@jotabe1984]

i would love a comparison between Rx 580 4gb vs Rx 570 8gb. I would love to see if the 20% extra cores is more important than the 2x memory config.

[@toboyaki_tagaraki]

After buying and holding an rx 580, i just realised how big it was and how big RandomGamingHD's are, THEY ARE HUGE COMPARED TO MINE.

[@FloatSamplesGT710]

Maybe you got a CPU botteneck

[@toboyaki_tagaraki]

@@FloatSamplesGT710 no I'm saying this guys hands are huge

[@FloatSamplesGT710]

@@toboyaki_tagaraki oh you meant the size of the GPU, lol I thought about the performance..

[@negrusz]

Sapphire Nitro+ Rx580 8Gb user here. Since 2018. Because i mainly play with retro games now days or remastered games its good enough even in 1440p. Next year maybe i go for a Nitro 7700XT.

[@joseguevara184]

Now in 2024 I tested both cards as I have both of them and 3d software to produce parts in a 3d printer. The RX 580 completes the tasks more than 2 or 3 minutes after the 1060... I think the apps are now developed to produce better results with Nvidia, even Intel. In a PC with I5 7700 with integrated GPU it is much much faster than in another PC I own with Ryzen 4600 + Rx580 8 gb, incredible. I tested Orca Slicer, Ideamaker and Cura. Orca and Ideamaker works just fine with Nvidia and Intel and only Cura works fine with AMD 580. Definitively AMD is for gaming and gamers, NVIDIA and Intel are for serious production.

[@exzld]

ehh I think it is more about optimizations and what the software was made to target. there are probably more improvements to be made for amd products they just not in demand or something

[@edvinkappel21]

i had a gtx 1060 6gb in my old pc and i bought it in 2018 and used it to 2023 when i got my new pc with a rtx 3070. the gtx 1060 6gb was a great card. now my dad use my old pc.

[@MrGiHunt]

Interesting results to be honest.. The 580 is usually faster than the 6gb version of the 1060, and the cut down 1060 is around 10 to 20% slower than the regular one. I would've expected drastically higher differences.

[@AlexiaTheFX]

Might be a bit off topic, I still have an RX570 4GB, for what i do, it's still okay, although when i do vr, sometime the fps are low but it depends on what is shown and what i do, the vram is a bit low for that and in Beam NG it strugles aswell

[@The_Juggla]

The 1060 3gb with it's cut core count is closer to an RX 470/570 regardless of VRAM config, which is why the AMD cards have a bit more longevity.

[@Lurch-Bot]

It is a shame the VRAM amount is not well reflected in used pricing because otherwise I'd be buying these, doubling the VRAM and reselling them. But I think where it is really at with regards to VRAM upgrades is with Turing GPUs. A 12GB 2060 would hang in there for a few more years. Or how about a 16GB 2080? It is relatively straightforward to do with Nvidia GPUs. You just swap in 2GB chips for the original 1GB chips, change a resistor and you're done. Runs with stock drivers and everything.

[@distrusts]

My only complaint about your videos is they're to short

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

nah

[@TheMikeMan777]

My attention span can't handle any more than this caption! 🤨

[@GrainGrown]

Your "to" is too short.

[@SuperLaziboi]

That 3gb msi 1060 was the exact card I had bought it back in 2017 and upgraded it back on 2022 to a 6600xt

[@cezardan01]

I would be curious how the RX 570 and the 1060 3GB compare, since on techpowerup they're ranked pretty close. And how the RX 570 8Gb compares to the RX 580 8GB, since at least in Romania the 570 can be 40-50 euro cheaper second-hand than the 580, but they seem pretty close in specs. Some ideas for what you might be able to try. :)

[@donovan6320]

Wow I am never this early, anyway, this sounds like a pretty interesting one. IIRC I think the 1060 3gb was at one point faster however that may change with the vram limitation.

[@DaiAtlus79]

the VRAM can be a big issue and cause the framerate issue vs the 580 but at the same time AMD cards can handle Vulkan rather well which is why RDR2 has that score. I use the 1060 3gb and im happily using it on a 1050p monitor.

[@MuchWhittering]

To be fair, Starfield's minimum spec is a 1070, so it's entirely fair that the 1060 isn't quite up to it.

[@YoboiLy]

I used to have that same rx 580 4gb, but glad i traded it for a gtx 1070 8gb one

[@Veritech1]

I have both 3gb and 6gb of GTX 1060 and it is doing great 😊

[@baoquoc3710]

hey Steve, can you find some 3060 8GB which had 128-bit bus but still retain the same CUDA cores and pcie 4.0 x16 protocol?

[@TurboLoveTrain]

Neat. Old MSi: Good; New MSi: Bad. I know this is a paradox but I love computers and I love nature. I also hate IVY because it is very very very invasive to the temperate rainforest I live in.

[@MixGaming25]

what about 1060 6gb vs rx580 8gb?

[@SimonBannow]

love to see that

[@DaiAtlus79]

6gb has 128 more CUDAs so probably a match or a lil better.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Hopefully coming at some point soon

[@MS-zp5by]

@@DaiAtlus79 nope , rx 580 runs more games better than 1060 , but percentage is small

[@martingolding4951]

Using the 1060 6gb here card gets updated driver about once or twice a month my gaming is ATS and ETS2 I also have 3 curved 32in acer monitors connected to it

[@peterhallbus1114]

The GTX 970 4GB is an old favorite that would be fun to add to this test ;)

[@MarginalSC]

970 sli for max comparison

[@peterhallbus1114]

@@MarginalSC that would in some cases outperform both cards but not always, fun idea.

[@awperisaac]

i sold my 980ti to get money for a better gpu, the guy i sold it to gave me a free rx 580 4gb. i used it for a week because the better gpu i bought was shipping. the rx 580 was pretty good for my 1080p needs

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

Your mileage may vary but most 1060's overclock much better than the average 580. If you tuned both cards, the 1060 would probably have the same performance as the 580.

[@kzxkzxkzx]

WARNING! ! THE MOST POWERFUL GRAPHICS CARD 6:38

[@gregsmith9183]

Inconsistent contrast between the 1060 and 580.. Considering both cards were tested using the same game settings. Overall the 580 did look better in most comparisons.

[@jaimdiojtar]

my first GPU was the 9500 Gt my second was the 1060 3GB, i upgraded to a 2060, until iended now to the 3080

[@hrvojemilicevic3309]

Gtx 1060 3gb is suprisingly good, for 40 - 50 dollars it's a great value.

[@toxen5919]

Was it really cut down? I would say that RX570 was the cut-down RX580. RX580 4 vs 8gb is only using different memory modules afaik. And RX560 is way slower than RX570, while RX570 is ~10% slower than RX580

[@Kayjoo]

So I just steal a deal a month ago buying a system with 1060 3gb and ryzen 5 2600 which has gigabyte ab320 gaming motherboard that allows me to upgrade to ryzen 5 5500. I got the system at $230 and it runs most games pretty well I would say

[@ZacharyHawkshaw]

If you want to see cut-down, look at the 2048SP version of the RX 580, it's barely better than the RX 570

[@salutsalutsalut69]

hii I have a question, now with new unreal engine 5 games, you need 6, 8, 10 or 12 Gb vram ? 1080P Screen, 60fps. I would like pretty much the same as ps5 quality

[@JOHNTECH112]

8gb would be minimum

[@salutsalutsalut69]

@@JOHNTECH112 Ok thanks :) I have a 4060 asus strix g16 and i didn t know when i ll need something better 3, 5, 7 years later :) it s seems 5 or 7

[@Jon-jn2kn]

I have a similar RX 580 of yours, I hope AMD will not end the support for this finewine card.

[@EGOTheSpartan]

Why do people make these videos comparing gpus in "2024" if pratically all the titles shown were made years ago (in many cases, countless years ago)? The RX only wins because of extra vram. In GTA it loses because the vram isn't capping the 1060. Any GTX 1000's series gpu trash the RX 500's easily, the 1060 just doesn't because you are comparing the 5th/6th worst GTX card of that generation against the 2nd/3rd strongest polaris card. Pratically only the RX 590 is better than the RX 580. Now if you placed a GTX 1070 with 8gb vs an RX 580 or even RX 590 with 8gb... Even a mid tier nvidia card trashes those amd cards on the top.

[@dodgydruid]

Be interesting to see how the 580 stacks against the RX560 which is also a 4gb but has that weird sounding memory which can only be 4gb max, on paper the 560 is a 570/580 but with different memory... wonder if you can add memory to the 580 to make it an 8gb, I did remember seeing a chap some years back who reckoned he was going to put 12gb on his 570 but never saw anything further so guessing it was a fail scenario.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

In modern games RX 580 8 GB is much closer to 1070 8 GB than to 1060 6 GB. As for these two, difference in 1 GB VRAM is much more noticeable if you do not opt for lowest settings, especially considering textures. Overall, AMD, as always, was and is much better bang for the money.

[@ant5963]

can you do a video showing how much of a difference a aftemarket cooler makes compared to a stock cooler when gaming i bought a £15 cooler and i went from 75-80c gaming to 50c yet i see so many people use the stock cooler when spending £15 can prolong your cpu's life aswell as increase performance. people often defend the amd stock cooler but the fact is comapred to a cheap aftermarket cooler its trash.

[@ironphilly2366]

Such a happy dog

[@06Angry]

were is cs2 benchmark

[@lgmnowkondo938]

which one was quieter? I had a 1060 3gb and I found it to be nice and quiet.

[@enigmalex3649]

How did you get such low gpu temperatures? Mine pulse rx580 had temperatures around 78° when gaming with new paste lol

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Not sure haha I replaced the paste the other day though

[@Josue31627]

A more fair comparison would've been the RX 570 instead maybe.