NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 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

4858 points
109% significantly better overall score
2318 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

105 FPS
58 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

71 FPS
36 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
35 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

71 FPS
21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

54 FPS
34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
19 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

85818 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
41822 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90905 points
117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
41822 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

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

105th of 586
189th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October
2018 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon RX 580X benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 580X in our tests.

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. 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, 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 RTX 2070 has a slightly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580X 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 RTX 2070 is better than the Radeon RX 580X.

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