AMD Radeon RX 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

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AMD Radeon RX 580X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

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

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580X

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 +276%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

VS

GeForce RTX 5060

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2025

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

4608

144

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GB206

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GB206

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

0 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

232 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

185W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-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

9.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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