NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon RX 580G

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 AMD Radeon RX 580G

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 89% (2520MHz vs 1330MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

14080 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580G's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +1247%

82.58 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G

6.129 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

Radeon RX 580G

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 40

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235MHz

Base Clock

1257MHz

2520MHz

Boost Clock

1330MHz

1313MHz

Memory Clock

2000MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1008 GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

16384

Shading Units

2304

512

TMUs

144

176

ROPs

32

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

72MB

L2 Cache

2MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.56 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

191.5 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.129 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.129 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

383.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Polaris 20

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

5 nm

Process Size

14 nm

76,300 million

Transistors

5,700 million

609mm²

Die Size

232mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

185W

850W

Suggested PSU

450W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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