Radeon RX 580 Mobile vs Vega Frontier Edition

Place in performance ranking	142	249
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	6.16	21.93
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name	Vega 10	Polaris
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	27 June 2017 (6 years old)	18 April 2017 (7 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$999	$301.69
Current price	$961 (1x MSRP)	$410 (1.4x MSRP)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

RX 580 Mobile has 256% better value for money than Vega Frontier Edition.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	4096	2304
Core clock speed	1382 MHz	1000 MHz
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	1077 MHz
Number of transistors	12,500 million	5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	100 Watt
Texture fill rate	409.6	155.1
Floating-point performance	13,107 gflops	4,963 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and Radeon RX 580 Mobile 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). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	no data	large
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	no data

Memory

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 type	HBM2	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz	8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	256.0 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI	+	no data

API support

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.4	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	2.0
Vulkan	1.1.125	1.2.131

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD	130−140 +66.7%	78 −66.7%
4K	50−55 +66.7%	30 −66.7%

Advantages and disadvantages

Performance score	34.40	20.50
Recency	27 June 2017	18 April 2017
Cost	$999	$301.69
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	100 Watt