NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 88% (2520MHz vs 1340MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

14080 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +1237%

82.58 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

6.175 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +736%

36499

Radeon RX 580

4362

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +988%

185

Radeon RX 580

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +700%

280

Radeon RX 580

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +508%

304

Radeon RX 580

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +588%

186

Radeon RX 580

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +275%

203

Radeon RX 580

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +173%

213

Radeon RX 580

78

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +208%

185

Radeon RX 580

60

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 40

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

128

SM Count

-

16384

Shading Units

2304

512

TMUs

144

176

ROPs

32

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

72 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

450W

TDP

185W

850 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Polaris 20

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

5 nm

Process Size

14 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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