AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

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

284% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4328 points

203% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points

341% significantly higher Blender score

88.64 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182 points

461% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54191 points

505% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

52261 points

387% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

10718 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

392% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

369% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11397 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

2000 MHz

49% significantly 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

168% significantly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

201% significantly higher texture rate

64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

201% significantly better floating point performance

2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

350% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

350% 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

310th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2021 January

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 8 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 580 GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 580 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 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 Vega 8 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 8.