AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2250MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (244W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 XT +1211%

20.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jun 2011

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

-

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

72

Compute Units

-

4608

Shading Units

512

288

TMUs

64

128

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

72

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

648.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

41.47 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

1296 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GF110

Navi 21 XT (215-121000177)

GPU Variant

GF110-380-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

244W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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