AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, 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
$ 2626.54 significantly less expensive
$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2281 points
42789 points
1775% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
1019 FPS
972 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
503 FPS
469 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS
740 FPS
692 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS
425 FPS
407 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4328 points
14480 points
234% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points
14992.38 points
3734% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points
383325 points
737% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points
380401 points
610% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz
2017 MHz
60% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz
2407 MHz
79% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
32 GiB
300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
512 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W
210% significantly lower TDP
575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s
423.6 Gigapixels/s
887% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
21760
844% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144
680
372% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
176
450% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

191st of 586
1st 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
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR7

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 RTX 5090 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 580 has a significantly lower TDP at 185 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 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 5090 over the Radeon RX 580.

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