NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +269%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 500

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GF110-380-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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