AMD Radeon RX 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580X 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB, 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

2318 points

28% slightly better overall score

1799 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

26 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

19 FPS

22 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41822 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21004 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41822 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23273 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

35% slightly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

43.3 Gigapixels/s

0.98% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

173.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

48% significantly better floating point performance

4.16 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

Identical

2304

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

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

189th of 586

221st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 580X vs GeForce GTX 780 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 780 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 580X in our tests.

The Radeon RX 580X 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 580X also 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 580X has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 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 Radeon RX 580X has a slightly lower TDP at 185 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 780 over the Radeon RX 580X.