GPU Comparison

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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 980 Ti

CORE STATE GM200

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1076 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,005

1,321

geekbench_metal

52,176

19,520

geekbench_opencl

37,453

43,259

geekbench_vulkan

45,173

47,724

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 980 Ti

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

2,816 +22.2%

Shaders

2,304

2,816 +22.2%

TMUs

144

176 +22.2%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

Compute Units

36

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Clocks

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1076 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

6,144 -25.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

3 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

103.3 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

6.175 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

385.9 GFLOPS (1:16)

189.4 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

6.175 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

185 W

250 W

TDP (W)

185

250 +35.1%

Suggested PSU

450 W

600 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GM200

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

GeForce 900

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

8,000 million

Die Size

232 mm²

601 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

13.3M / 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

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 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

649 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

GeForce 700

Successor

Vega

GeForce 10

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