AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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AMD Radeon RX 580 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1710MHz vs 1340MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 +63%

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580

4359

GeForce RTX 2080 +151%

10952

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 580

17

GeForce RTX 2080 +170%

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 580

35

GeForce RTX 2080 +142%

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 580

50

GeForce RTX 2080 +154%

127

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 580

27

GeForce RTX 2080 +133%

63

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580

54

GeForce RTX 2080 +111%

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 580

78

GeForce RTX 2080 +102%

158

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580

60

GeForce RTX 2080 +80%

108

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2018

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2944

144

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

TU104

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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