NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5387 points

136% significantly better overall score

2281 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

77 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

34 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8047 points

85% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4328 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

302% significantly higher Blender score

390.99 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

49182 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

54191 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45779 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53514 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1257 MHz

71% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1340 MHz

22% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

384 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

105% significantly lower TDP

185 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

63% significantly higher pixel rate

42.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

4% slightly higher texture rate

192.96 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

4% slightly better floating point performance

6.18 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

27% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

27% 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

94th of 586

192nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

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 2080 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 580 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 580 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 580 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 580 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

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 RTX 2080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 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 2080 Max-Q is better than the Radeon RX 580.