Quadro FX 580 vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking480not rated
Place by popularity29not in top-100
Power efficiency41.96no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameVegaG96C
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)9 April 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$199

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores51232
Core clock speedno data450 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data314 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rateno data7.200
Floating-point processing powerno data0.072 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16

Form factor & compatibility

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

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data198 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data512 MB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data800 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data25.6 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 9 April 2009
Chip lithography 7 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 40 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has an age advantage of 10 years, a 685.7% more advanced lithography process, and 166.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Quadro FX 580. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while Quadro FX 580 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 580
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