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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 high-end GCN 4.0 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 2-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.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 51.36 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Benchmarks NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

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

Place in performance rating

Perfomance to price

48.44

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Code name

Polaris 20

Type

Desktop

Release date

18 April 2017

Launch price (MSRP)

$229

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price

$319.99

of 4762.99 (Quadro P6000)

Technical specs

Radeon RX 580's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core 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

2304

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Core clock speed

1257 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

of 1750 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

5,700 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 12

Power consumption (TDP)

185 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

193.0

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

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 specs

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 32

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp Collector's Edition Galactic Empire)

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 580.

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Video card benchmarks performance

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

Overall benchmark performance

51.36

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

224417.00

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

16507.00

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

22974.00

3DMark Vantage Performance

61875.00

Unigine Heaven 3.0

6842.93

Passmark

8338

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon RX 580 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

100.25 %

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

100.18 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

100.1 %

AMD Radeon R9 290

100 %

AMD Radeon RX 580

AMD Radeon RX 580

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon RX 580 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX TITAN, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 3 positions in our rating.