AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000

Price

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$ 139.19

$ 538.80 significantly less expensive

$ 677.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2281 points

5888 points

158% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

145 FPS

97 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

85 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

103 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

66 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4328 points

10586 points

144% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points

2096.93 points

436% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182 points

105171 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54191 points

73163 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

103585 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

93415 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

1620 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

1815 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

448 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

24% slightly lower TDP

230 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

116.2 Gigapixels/s

170% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

348.5 Gigatexels/s

80% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

11.15 TFLOPS

80% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

3072

33% slightly more shading units

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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

191st of 586

85th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2018 August

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 Quadro RTX 5000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Quadro RTX 5000 beats the Radeon RX 580 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Quadro RTX 5000 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 Quadro RTX 5000 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX 580 has a slightly lower TDP at 185 W when compared to the Quadro RTX 5000 at 230 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 Quadro RTX 5000 over the Radeon RX 580.