NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 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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AMD Radeon RX 580

Price

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$ 659.00

$ 139.19

$ 519.81 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4840 points

112% significantly better overall score

2281 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

104 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

71 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

34 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

71 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

53 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9001 points

107% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4328 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2206.17 points

464% significantly higher Blender score

390.99 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

85818 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

49182 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

73515 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

54191 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90905 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45779 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

84097 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53514 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1620 MHz

20% 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

448 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

5% slightly lower TDP

185 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.7 Gigapixels/s

141% significantly higher pixel rate

42.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

233.3 Gigatexels/s

20% slightly higher texture rate

192.96 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.46 TFLOPS

20% slightly better floating point performance

6.18 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

Identical

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

Identical

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

105th of 586

191st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon RX 580 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2070 beats the Radeon RX 580 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 2070 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 RTX 2070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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 RTX 2070 has a slightly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2070 is better than the Radeon RX 580.