AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL, 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

150% significantly better overall score

909 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182 points

140% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

20414 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54191 points

143% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22274 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19350 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

140% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

22280 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

35% slightly higher core clock speed

931 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

1011 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

1024 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

42% much higher memory bandwidth

179.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

65 W

184% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

32% slightly higher pixel rate

32.35 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

138% significantly higher texture rate

80.88 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

138% significantly better floating point performance

2.59 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

79% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

79% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

192nd of 586

270th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2018 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

HBM2

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 580 vs Radeon RX Vega M GL comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 580 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX Vega M GL in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 580 has a slightly 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 Radeon RX 580 also has a slightly 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 Vega M GL has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 580 over the Radeon RX Vega M GL.