NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580X 8 GB, 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

111% significantly better overall score

2318 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

35 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

19 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

41822 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

41822 points

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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

189th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2018 March

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 580X benchmarks

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

In our comparison, 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580X at 185 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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