NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP, 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

13991 points

662% significantly better overall score

1836 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

296 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

141 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

201 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

40 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

120 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

414% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3877 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

404% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40609 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

267% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37797 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

465% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

34371 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

293% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

45743 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

1168 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

1284 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

317% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

150 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

361% significantly higher pixel rate

41.09 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

238% significantly higher texture rate

164.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

576% significantly better floating point performance

5.26 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

412% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

156% significantly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

218th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2018 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 580 2048SP comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3090 is faster than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP.