NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

167% significantly better overall score

1836 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

40 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

94% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3877 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40609 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37797 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

34371 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

45743 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

1168 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

1284 MHz

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

42% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

150 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

169% significantly higher pixel rate

41.09 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

68% significantly higher texture rate

164.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

68% significantly better floating point performance

5.26 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

25% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

25% slightly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

218th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2018 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 580 2048SP comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP in gaming.

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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 over the Radeon RX 580 2048SP.