Radeon RX 6800 XT vs GeForce GTX 580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6800 XT 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (244W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+1211%
20740
GeForce GTX 580
1581
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Nov 2010
Navi II
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1825 MHz
Base Clock
-
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.4GB/s
Render Config
72
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
4608
Shading Units
512
288
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
48
72
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
128 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
288.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
648.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
41.47 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
20.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
1296 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
244W
700 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 21
GPU Name
GF110
Navi 21 XT
(215-121000177)
GPU Variant
GF110-375-A1
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
40 nm
26.8 billion
Transistors
3 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
6.5
Shader Model
5.1