AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 139.19

$ 200.60 significantly less expensive

$ 339.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2281 points

6694 points

193% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

161 FPS

113 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

77 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

113 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

61 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

52 FPS

81 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

54 FPS

81 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

65 FPS

124 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Fortnite FPS

Low settings at 1080p

222 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher Fortnite FPS

204 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4328 points

87% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points

3124.65 points

699% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

101567 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

99687 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

1925 MHz

53% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

2075 MHz

54% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

288 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

8% slightly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

209% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

97% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

295% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

5888

155% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

184

27% slightly 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

73rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce RTX 4060 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4060 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 GeForce RTX 4060 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX 580 has a slightly lower TDP at 185 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4060 over the Radeon RX 580.