GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon RX 580G
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 81% (2407MHz vs 1330MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
19456 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages
Lower TDP (185W vs 575W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5090
+1609%
104800
Radeon RX 580G
6129
Graphics Card
Jan 2025
Release Date
Oct 2018
GeForce 50
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2017 MHz
Base Clock
1257 MHz
2407 MHz
Boost Clock
1330 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
32GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1.79TB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
170
SM Count
-
21760
Shading Units
2304
680
TMUs
144
176
ROPs
32
680
Tensor Cores
-
170
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
96 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
423.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.56 GPixel/s
1637 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
191.5 GTexel/s
104.8 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
6.129 TFLOPS
104.8 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.129 TFLOPS
1.637 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
383.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
575W
TDP
185W
950 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GB202
GPU Name
Polaris 20
GB202-300-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
5 nm
Process Size
14 nm
92.2 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
750 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.4
Vulkan
1.2
12.0
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.4