awesome thanks for the replies... good to hear RX 580 is capable of mining Bitcoin GOLD!
Yep, like the others above said its the same algo as Zcash. While the AMD line is not quite as efficient as Nvidia at Equihash, it is still mine-able, especially if the profits are there. When Zcash first launched late last October a lot of the Ethereum hashrate moved over for about a month and many of those miners I am sure were using AMD cards (I know first hand as I was one of them).
Anyway, since Nvidia normally does a better job on Equihash, most of the articles you encounter will probably reference those cards versus their AMD counterparts. The only time you would need to worry about it is if you were considering buying new cards just for mining BTG, keep in mind in general Nvidia is good at Equihash, while AMD is good Ethash.
