NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 960.29
$ 298.79
$ 661.50 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

48 %
118% significantly better overall score
22 %

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

92 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
46 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS
45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547
74% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
4333
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

613.31
46% significantly higher Blender score
419.17
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824
44601
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
49182
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
54191
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824
52090
118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46368
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
43718
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65421
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
50852

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz
27% slightly higher core clock speed
1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz
29% slightly higher boost clock speed
1340 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
Identical
8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
Identical
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s
25% slightly higher memory bandwidth
256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W
2% slightly lower TDP
185 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s
158% significantly higher pixel rate
42.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s
43% significantly higher texture rate
192.96 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS
43% significantly better floating point performance
6.18 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
11% slightly more shading units
2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
11% slightly more texture mapping units
144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

45th of 549
111th of 549

Family

The product line

-
Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

May 2016
April 2017

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 580 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 beats the Radeon RX 580 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 is better than the Radeon RX 580.

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