AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1340MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 +136%

6.175 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 560

1796

Radeon RX 580 +142%

4359

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 560

3

Radeon RX 580 +466%

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 560

12

Radeon RX 580 +191%

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 560

21

Radeon RX 580 +138%

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 560

11

Radeon RX 580 +145%

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 560

32

Radeon RX 580 +68%

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560

40

Radeon RX 580 +95%

78

Radeon RX 560

VS

Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2017

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

36

1024

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

185W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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