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 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 39.49 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.

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

General info

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

Place in performance rating

Value for money (0-100)

69.23

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 now

$179.99

of 6300 (Quadro RTX 6000)

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 (Radeon RX Vega 64)

Core clock speed

1257 MHz

of 1620 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

of 1815 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Transistor count

5,700 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

185 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

193.0 GTexel / s

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

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

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 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB / s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Video outputs and ports

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

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

API support

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

DirectX

12.0 (12_0)

OpenGL

4.6

Benchmark 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

39.49

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

348952

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

82516

3DMark Fire Strike Score

11986

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

13927

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

19274

3DMark Vantage Performance

44344

Passmark

8438

Game benchmarks

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

Relative perfomance

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

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

100 %

AMD Radeon RX 580

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon RX 580 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK, which is faster by 2% and higher by 7 positions in our rating.