AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 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

2281 points

38% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

32 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

21 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4328 points

47% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2939 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

264.38 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23785 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54191 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

26093 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24516 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23881 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

1038 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

1127 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

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

256 GB/s

59% significantly higher memory bandwidth

160.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

100 W

85% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

72.13 Gigapixels/s

68% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

78% significantly higher texture rate

108.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

78% significantly better floating point performance

3.46 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

49% significantly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

192nd of 586

231st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GTX 980M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 580 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980M in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 580 has a slightly 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 slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 580 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980M has a significantly lower TDP at 100 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 580 over the GeForce GTX 980M.