AMD Radeon RX 580G vs ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580G ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2950 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages

Boost Clock1330MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580G +1133%

6.129 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G

VS

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1330 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

4

2304

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

42.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

191.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

6.129 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.129 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

383.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

RV670

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

RV670 XTX (215-0708004)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

110W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 580G vs AMD Radeon Vega 7 Mobile

2

AMD Radeon RX 580G vs AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

3

AMD Radeon RX 580G vs ATI Radeon HD 2400

4

AMD Radeon RX 580G vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

5

AMD Radeon RX 580G vs AMD Radeon HD 7790

6

AMD Radeon RX 580G vs NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP

7

AMD Radeon RX 580G vs ATI FirePro V7900

8

AMD Radeon RX 580G vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

9

AMD Radeon RX 580G vs NVIDIA P106 100

10

AMD Radeon RX 580G vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Related News

1

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

2

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

3

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs

4

TSMC to Receive Over 60 EUV Lithography Machines Over the Next Two Years, Investing More Than $12.3 Billion

5

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

6

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied

7

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience

8

Intel Adds 5 New Device IDs to Latest Linux Xe Kernel in Preparation for Battlemage

9

Ryzen AI 9 365 Benchmark Results Leaked: Significant Improvements in Multi-Core and IPC Performance Over Previous Generation

10

Concerns Raised by Unstable 13th/14th Gen Core CPUs: Motherboard Manufacturers Worry About Impact on Arrow Lake Release and Sales