AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Price

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$ 139.19

$ 269.77 significantly less expensive

$ 408.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2281 points

26% slightly better overall score

1799 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

26 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

22 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4328 points

52% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

311.05 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

44601 points

355% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

9797 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21004 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54191 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21940 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

52261 points

406% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

10316 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23273 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24865 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

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

256 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

35% slightly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

43.3 Gigapixels/s

0.98% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

173.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

48% significantly better floating point performance

4.16 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

Identical

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

192

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

191st of 586

221st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GTX 780 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 580 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 780 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 580 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 Radeon RX 580 also has a significantly 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, the Radeon RX 580 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 580 has a slightly lower TDP at 185 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 at 250 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 GTX 780.