AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 139.19

$ 402.76 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2281 points

12174 points

433% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

289 FPS

242 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

141 FPS

107 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

206 FPS

158 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

114 FPS

96 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

54 FPS

108 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4328 points

12% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points

5402.96 points

1281% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

168368 points

267% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

158623 points

196% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

2190 MHz

74% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

2430 MHz

81% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

360 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

62% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

353% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

182% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

464% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

7168

211% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

224

55% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

192nd of 586

31st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2023 April

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 4070 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 580 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4070 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon RX 580 has a significantly lower TDP at 185 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4070 is faster than the Radeon RX 580.