AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon RX 580X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon VII and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1750MHz vs 1340MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (185W vs 295W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon VII
+117%
13.44 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 580X
6.175 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Apr 2018
Vega II
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1400 MHz
Base Clock
1257 MHz
1750 MHz
Boost Clock
1340 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
8GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1020GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
60
Compute Units
36
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3840
Shading Units
2304
240
TMUs
144
64
ROPs
32
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16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
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Theoretical Performance
112.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.88 GPixel/s
420.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
193.0 GTexel/s
26.88 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
6.175 TFLOPS
13.44 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.175 TFLOPS
3.360 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
385.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
295W
TDP
185W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vega 20
GPU Name
Polaris 20
Vega 20 XT
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)
GCN 5.1
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
7 nm
Process Size
14 nm
13.23 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
331 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
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6.7
Shader Model
6.4
