AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 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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$ 499.99

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$ 499.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

21 %

22 %

4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

46 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

33 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

42 FPS

45 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

18 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4144

4333

4% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

42415

44601

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522

49182

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947

54191

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

46466

51965

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732

46698

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49197

50839

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

0.72% slightly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

1340 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

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8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

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256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

256 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

23% slightly lower TDP

185 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

42.88 Gigapixels/s

5% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

192.96 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

6.18 TFLOPS

5% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

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2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

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144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

99th of 363

95th of 363

Family

The product line

Radeon 400 Series

Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

June 2016

April 2017

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 580 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 580 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 480 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 480 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 580 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.

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 Radeon RX 480 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 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 Radeon RX 580 over the Radeon RX 480.