GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 580

CORE STATE Polaris 20

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1340 MHz

TDP 185 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 950

CORE STATE GM206

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1188 MHz

TDP 90 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,005

N/A

geekbench_metal

52,176

7,172

geekbench_opencl

37,453

16,740

geekbench_vulkan

45,173

16,734

passmark_directx_10

46

N/A

passmark_directx_11

60

N/A

passmark_directx_12

43

N/A

passmark_directx_9

124

N/A

passmark_g2d

769

N/A

passmark_g3d

8,813

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

3,488

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 580

GTX 950

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

768 -66.7%

Shaders

2,304

768 -66.7%

TMUs

144

48 -66.7%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

Compute Units

36

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Clocks

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1024 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1653 MHz 6.6 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

2 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

2,048 -75.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

105.8 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

1024 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

38.02 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

6.175 TFLOPS

1.825 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

385.9 GFLOPS (1:16)

57.02 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

6.175 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

185 W

90 W

TDP (W)

185

90 -51.4%

Suggested PSU

450 W

250 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GM206

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

GeForce 900

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

2,940 million

Die Size

232 mm²

228 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

12.9M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

202 mm 8 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

159 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

GeForce 700

Successor

Vega

GeForce 10

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