Radeon RX 580 2048SP: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon RX 580 2048SP provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 18.20% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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Summary
AMD started Radeon RX 580 2048SP sales 15 October 2018. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 4.0 architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics 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 150 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon RX 580 2048SP: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 317 | |
| Place by popularity | 51 | |
| Power efficiency | 9.20 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 (2016−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Polaris 20 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 15 October 2018 (6 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon RX 580 2048SP's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 580 2048SP's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2048 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 1168 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1284 MHz | of 3230 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 5,700 million | of 185,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI350X) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 150 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 164.4 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 5.259 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 128 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 580 2048SP and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 241 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 580 2048SP: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 224.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 580 2048SP. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon RX 580 2048SP, 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
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 580 2048SP. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 580 2048SP is GeForce GTX 1650, which is faster by 3% and higher by 11 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon RX 580 2048SP:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon RX 580 2048SP according to our statistics.
