AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop, 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
1882 points
2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS
49 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

40 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
33 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
18 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34371 points
40962 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

45743 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
37410 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1168 MHz
40% slightly higher core clock speed
832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1284 MHz
1537 MHz
19% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s
133% significantly higher memory bandwidth
96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

41.09 Gigapixels/s
49.18 Gigapixels/s
19% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

164.4 Gigatexels/s
67% significantly higher texture rate
98.37 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
Identical
2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
100% significantly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
Identical
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

218th of 586
216th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October
2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs RTX A500 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP GPU is faster than the RTX A500 Laptop in gaming.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 580 2048SP over the RTX A500 Laptop.

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