Radeon RX 580X vs GeForce GTX 580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 580X Advantages
Released 7 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1340MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (185W vs 244W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 580X
+290%
6175
GeForce GTX 580
1581
Graphics Card
Apr 2018
Release Date
Nov 2010
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1257 MHz
Base Clock
-
1340 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.4GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
2304
Shading Units
512
144
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
42.88 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
193.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
6.175 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.175 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
385.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
185W
TDP
244W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Polaris 20
GPU Name
GF110
Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)
(215-0910038)
GPU Variant
GF110-375-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
3 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1