NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1013.18
$ 139.19
$ 873.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7909 points
246% significantly better overall score
2281 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

177 FPS
129 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS
73 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
34 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

127 FPS
79 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

82 FPS
63 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11584 points
167% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
4328 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2321.66 points
493% significantly higher Blender score
390.99 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

114956 points
133% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
49182 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93540 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
54191 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

118678 points
159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
45779 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

111284 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
53514 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1650 MHz
31% slightly higher core clock speed
1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1815 MHz
35% 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

495.9 GB/s
93% significantly higher memory bandwidth
256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W
185 W
35% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

116.2 Gigapixels/s
170% significantly higher pixel rate
42.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

348.5 Gigatexels/s
80% significantly higher texture rate
192.96 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.15 TFLOPS
80% significantly better floating point performance
6.18 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072
33% slightly more shading units
2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192
33% slightly more texture mapping units
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

57th of 586
191st of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2017 April

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
4.5

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon RX 580 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER beats the Radeon RX 580 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER has a slightly 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 GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 580 has a slightly lower TDP at 185 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER at 250 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 RTX 2080 SUPER over the Radeon RX 580.

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