AMD Radeon RX 570 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare AMD Radeon RX 570 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 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

$ 213.30
$ 905.90 significantly less expensive
$ 1119.20

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1929 points
24107 points
1149% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS
560 FPS
521 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS
277 FPS
248 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

40 FPS
407 FPS
367 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS
226 FPS
210 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3841 points
8762 points
128% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

332.38 points
9133.30 points
2647% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41113 points
267906 points
551% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47019 points
257198 points
447% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1168 MHz
2295 MHz
96% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1244 MHz
2617 MHz
110% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
16 GiB
100% significantly more memory

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
960 GB/s
328% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W
139% significantly lower TDP
360 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

39.81 Gigapixels/s
293.1 Gigapixels/s
636% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

159.2 Gigatexels/s
879.3 Gigatexels/s
452% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.10 TFLOPS
56.28 TFLOPS
1004% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
10752
424% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
336
162% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
112
250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

213th of 586
4th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 570 vs GeForce RTX 5080 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5080 beats the Radeon RX 570 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 5080 has a significantly 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 5080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 5080 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 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 570 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5080 at 360 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5080 over the Radeon RX 570.

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