AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A1000 Laptop, 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

2485 points

8% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

62 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

30 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

43 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

23 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points

1140.23 points

191% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

48617 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

46592 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

99% significantly higher core clock speed

630 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

1140 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

45% significantly higher memory bandwidth

176 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

60 W

208% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

54.72 Gigapixels/s

27% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

164% significantly higher texture rate

72.96 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

32% slightly better floating point performance

4.67 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

12% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

125% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

191st of 586

178th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

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 RTX A1000 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A1000 Laptop GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580 in gaming.

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. In addition, the Radeon RX 580 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 RTX A1000 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 60 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 RTX A1000 Laptop over the Radeon RX 580.