AMD Radeon RX 580: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 580 sales 18 April 2017 at a recommended price of $229. This is Polaris architecture desktop card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 8 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 256.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 241 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 185 Watt.

General info

Of Radeon RX 580's architecture, market segment and release date.

Place in performance rating	163
Value for money	26.51
Architecture	Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name	Polaris 20
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	18 April 2017 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$229
Price now	$444 (1.9x MSRP)	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Technical specs

Radeon RX 580's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 580's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2304	of 18432 (AD102)
Core clock speed	1257 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1340 MHz	of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600)
Number of transistors	5,700 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Thermal design power (TDP)	185 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate	193.0	of 939.8 (H100 SXM5)
Floating-point performance	6,175 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon RX 580's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	241 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 580: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz	of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090)
Memory bandwidth	256.0 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 580. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI	+

API support

APIs supported by Radeon RX 580, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.4
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance of Radeon RX 580. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Radeon RX 580 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD	98
1440p	43
4K	36

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	58
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−33
Battlefield 5	124
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	30−33
Cyberpunk 2077	30−33
Far Cry 5	83
Far Cry New Dawn	83
Forza Horizon 4	108
Hitman 3	30−33
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−33
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−33
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	74
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−33

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	47
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−33
Battlefield 5	102
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	30−33
Cyberpunk 2077	30−33
Far Cry 5	76
Far Cry New Dawn	78
Forza Horizon 4	101
Hitman 3	30−33
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−33
Metro Exodus	48
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−33
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	63
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	72
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−33

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	34
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−33
Battlefield 5	93
Cyberpunk 2077	30−33
Far Cry 5	71
Far Cry New Dawn	71
Forza Horizon 4	82
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	44
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−33

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	30−33
Hitman 3	30−33
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−33
Metro Exodus	28
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−33
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	30−33

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	30−33
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−33
Battlefield 5	30−33
Cyberpunk 2077	30−33
Far Cry 5	30−33
Far Cry New Dawn	53
Forza Horizon 4	30−33
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−33

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	30−33
Hitman 3	30−33
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−33
Metro Exodus	18
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−33
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	20
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	27

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	18
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−33
Battlefield 5	37
Cyberpunk 2077	30−33
Far Cry 5	26
Far Cry New Dawn	29
Forza Horizon 4	41
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−33

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon RX 580 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.

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