it eats up some +50W up to +100W more than the 1060 to do a similar job so if the eletric bill is not very expensive where you live and/or you don't use it for gaming very often, an RX580 will be worth it.
That being said, pricing varies from time to time and place to place so you may find an AMD RX580 for quite a bit cheaper than the 1060. If you want a cheaper gpu, Nvidia GTX 1060 is a great one for reasonable price and it is very energy efficient proportionally to its performance. AMD VEGA 56 and 64 don't get near their performance, not even proportionally to their price. If all you want is a top performance gpu, nvidia has GTX1080 and RTX2080. This is the latest AMD vs Nvidia GPU comparison benchmark for Linux I found on Phoronix: I have stuggled with getting Nvidia stuff working. I myself have never run in to any meaningful issues with AMD drivers (Open source and proprietary) with modern AMD hardware aside from the Vega stability issues. Nvidia drivers are proprietary, meaning you can forget about stuff like freesync or getting many game-specific fixes since that is not something Nvidia cares about. On the laptop side getting a Nvidia Optimus switchable GPU to work can be a huge pain in the butt, you have to install Bumblebee and set kernel parameters after which it might still not work. Screen tearing is an issue that plagues many people with Nvidia on Linux. These drivers are prone to graphical bugs and have terrible Wayland support which I often hear Linux users complain about. I don't own any modern Nvidia cards to test stability of these drivers on Linux myself. Nvidia's proprietary drivers currently deliver better performance then the AMD ones and I haven't heard any complaints about stability. For laptops with switchable graphics you only have to install MESA and it just works, maybe set DRI_PRIME=1 %command% in the Steam game launch options to make sure it switches and that is all you have to do. Due to this they have better compatibility with Windows games running though WINE or Proton. However the open source AMD drivers do often recieve fixes for WINE and DXVK. Wayland support is however slowly improving. Wayland support is there but it's not perfect for the open source drivers, it runs but there is artifacting and the performance is horrible it feels like my screen is stuck at 30hz appears to have been fixed.
If I were to start Rise Of The Tomb Raider or Dawn of War 3 my machine is very likely to completely lock up and become unresponsive after a few minutes or a few hours of gameplay, it's random. The open source AMD drivers, at least the ones for Vega are unstable. With Nvidia it can be a pain in the butt to get their GPU drivers working correctly, and there are tons of bugs in those drivers. Fury and later AMD cards from my experience just work, you install the drivers and it just works.
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