AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 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

1836 points

33119 points

1703% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

787 FPS

749 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

382 FPS

354 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

40 FPS

567 FPS

527 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

318 FPS

304 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3877 points

9236 points

138% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34371 points

318192 points

825% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

45743 points

273214 points

497% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1168 MHz

2235 MHz

91% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1284 MHz

2520 MHz

96% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

1010 GB/s

350% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

200% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

41.09 Gigapixels/s

483.8 Gigapixels/s

1077% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

164.4 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

684% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.26 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

1470% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

16384

700% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

512

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

218th of 586

2nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs GeForce RTX 4090 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4090 has a significantly 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 4090 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 is better than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP.