AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon Vega 6

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 6, 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

624% significantly better overall score

315 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4328 points

425% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

823 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182 points

602% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7003 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54191 points

697% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

6797 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

535% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

7199 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

680% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6854 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

319% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

1700 MHz

26% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

45 W

311% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

215% significantly higher pixel rate

13.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

372% significantly higher texture rate

40.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

499% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

499% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

192nd of 586

371st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2021 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

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 Vega 6 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 580 graphics card is better than the Radeon Vega 6 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 580 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 6 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 Vega 6 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 580 over the Radeon Vega 6.