AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A4000

Price

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$ 139.19

$ 1245.81 significantly less expensive

$ 1385.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2281 points

7111 points

211% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

175 FPS

127 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

88 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

119 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

65 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4328 points

11018 points

154% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points

3139.35 points

702% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182 points

116149 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54191 points

83390 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

122638 points

167% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

127645 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

71% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

1560 MHz

16% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

140 W

32% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

149.8 Gigapixels/s

249% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

299.5 Gigatexels/s

55% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

210% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

6144

166% significantly 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

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

191st of 586

66th 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

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 A4000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A4000 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. Despite this, the RTX A4000 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the RTX A4000 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the RTX A4000 has a slightly lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the RTX A4000 is faster than the Radeon RX 580.