AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 620

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 620, 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

$ 139.19
$ 68.60
$ 70.59 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2281 points
3409% significantly better overall score
65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS
47 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182 points
3578% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
1337 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points
2804% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
1576 points

Specifications

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

256 GB/s
1677% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W
49 W
277% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s
1431% significantly higher pixel rate
2.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s
1622% significantly higher texture rate
11.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
2299% significantly more shading units
96

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144
800% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
700% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

192nd of 586
531st 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
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GT 620 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 580 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 620 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 620 has a significantly lower TDP at 49 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 580 is better than the GeForce GT 620.

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