AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 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

2142 points

2318 points

8% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

47 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

35 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

51 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

19 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

41822 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

41822 points

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

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

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

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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586

189th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2018 March

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

4.6

Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 580X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 480 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580X in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 480 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 580X 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. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 480 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580X at 185 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 480 is better than the Radeon RX 580X.