AMD Radeon Pro 570 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile Comparison
AMD Radeon Pro 570
GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
Analysis: AMD Radeon Pro 570 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile
# The Verdict
The data strongly favors the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile for nearly every workload. Its average benchmark score of 38,135 places it at the 81st percentile of all GPUs, a full 14.9% ahead of the AMD Radeon Pro 570's average of 33,207 (78th percentile). The only area where the AMD card shows a clear edge is in raw OpenCL compute throughput, where it leads by 0.4%. For anyone prioritizing general graphics, gaming, or content creation, the GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile is the definitive choice.
Architecture Differences
The two chips are built on fundamentally different design philosophies. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile uses the AD104 chip based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, manufactured on a 5nm process by TSMC, while the AMD Radeon Pro 570 is an Ellesmere chip built on the older GCN 4.0 architecture, fabricated by GlobalFoundries on a 14nm node.
The GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile is a far denser, more complex chip. It packs 35,800 million transistors on a 294mm² die, resulting in a transistor density of 121.8 million per mm². This is roughly five times the transistor density of the AMD's 5,700 million transistors on a 232mm² die (24.6M per mm²). The Ada Lovelace architecture also brings 58 RT cores and 232 tensor cores, which the GCN 4.0 chip lacks entirely. In raw shading resources, the NVIDIA chip has 7,424 shading units and 232 TMUs, compared to the Radeon's 1,792 shading units and 112 TMUs. The Radeon has 80 ROPs against NVIDIA's 80 ROPs.
Where Each One Wins
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile is the clear winner in raw graphics performance, with a recorded pixel rate of 133.2 GPixel/s and texture fill rate of 386.3 GTexel/s, compared to the AMD's 35.36 GPixel/s and 123.8 GTexel/s. The RTX 4080 Mobile also has a significant memory bandwidth advantage, with 432.0 GB/s over a 192-bit bus, versus 217.0 GB/s over a 256-bit bus, though the AMD card has a wider bus. In DX12 Ultimate and Vulkan 1.4, the NVIDIA card leads with an API feature advantage.
The AMD Radeon Pro 570 wins in two areas: OpenCL compute and power efficiency. In the geekbench_opencl test, the Radeon Pro 570 scores 27,702, a 0.4% lead over the NVIDIA's 159,575. The 570 also has a lower 150W TDP and uses standard PCIe 3.0 x16. It also leads in the DirectX 9 legacy test, with a score of 286 versus 96.
FAQ
Q: Which one is faster overall?
A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile has an average benchmark score 14.9% higher than the AMD Radeon Pro 570, and it also has the higher peak performance and feature set overall.
Q: Which one is better for gaming?
A: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile. It has 5.13x the shading power, with 7,424 shading units and 112 TMUs, versus 1,792 and 32 for the AMD. It also has the advantage of DX12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4 support.
Q: Does the AMD Radeon Pro 570 support ray tracing?
A: No. The Radeon Pro 570 has no RT cores and no tensor cores. GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile has 58 RT cores and 232 Tensor cores.
Q: Which has the higher memory bandwidth?
A: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile has a huge 432.2 GB/s bandwidth, 99.2% higher than the AMD's 217.0 GB/s. AMD has a larger 256-bit bus, but the NVIDIA's GDDR6 memory at 18 Gbps effective is faster.
Head-to-Head Benchmarks
The biggest win for the NVIDIA is in the Geekbench Vulkan test, where it scores 145,807 versus the AMD's 31,974, a 356% lead. The Geekbench OpenCL result is also NVIDIA-sided: 159,575 vs 27,702, a 476% difference. The only test AMD wins is the Geekbench Metal test, scoring 39,945 versus no score for NVIDIA (the GeForce has no native Metal API support).
In the Passmark suite, the GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile leads in the DirectX 9, 11, and 12 tests, along with G2D, G3D, and GPU compute. The Radeon Pro 570 wins in the DirectX 10 test with a score of 244 versus 157.
Specification Differences
Process Node: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile is built on 5nm, AMD Radeon Pro 570 on 14nm. Transistor Count: 35,800 million versus 5,700 million. Die Size: 294mm² versus 232mm². Transistor Density: 121.8M/mm² versus 24.6M/mm². Memory: 12GB GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus versus 4GB GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus. Bandwidth: 432.2GB/s vs 217.0GB/s. Clock Speeds: GPU 1665MHz boost for NVIDIA, 1105MHz boost for AMD. The AMD has a 1695MHz memory clock, but the NVIDIA's 2250MHz effective memory clock is higher. Shading units: 7424 versus 1792. TMUs: 232 versus 112. ROPs: 80 each. RT cores: 58 for NVIDIA, none for AMD. Tensor cores: 232 for NVIDIA, none for AMD.