AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 580X and AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 580X

  • 83.3x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 12500 million
  • 2.2x more memory clock speed: 1695 MHz (6780 MHz effective) vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 12500 million
Memory clock speed 1695 MHz (6780 MHz effective) vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

  • Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 1300 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • Around 44% higher texture fill rate: 249.6 GTexel/s vs 172.8 GTexel/s
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 3072 vs 2304
  • Around 50% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 53783 vs 35755
  • Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3947 vs 3643
  • Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3947 vs 3643
  • 3.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 10411 vs 3360
  • 3.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 10411 vs 3360
  • Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 788 vs 698
  • Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11289 vs 7540
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1200 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed 1300 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Texture fill rate 249.6 GTexel/s vs 172.8 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3072 vs 2304
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 53783 vs 35755
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3947 vs 3643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3947 vs 3643
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 10411 vs 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 10411 vs 3360
PassMark - G2D Mark 788 vs 698
PassMark - G3D Mark 11289 vs 7540

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 580X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
35755
53783
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3643
3947
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3643
3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3360
10411
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3360
10411
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
698
788
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7540
11289
Name AMD Radeon Pro 580X AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
Geekbench - OpenCL 35755 53783
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3643 3947
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3643 3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 10411
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 10411
PassMark - G2D Mark 698 788
PassMark - G3D Mark 7540 11289
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 135.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3063.269
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 883.876
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11925

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 580X AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Vega 10 PRO
Code name Polaris 20 Greenland
Launch date 18 March 2019 19 March 2019
Place in performance rating 365 232
Type Laptop Desktop
GCN generation GCN 5.0

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1200 MHz 1300 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1100 MHz 1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 345.6 GFLOPS 499.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 5.530 TFLOPS 15.97 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.530 TFLOPS 7.987 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2304 3072
Pixel fill rate 38.40 GPixel/s 83.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 172.8 GTexel/s 249.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 12500 million
Transistor count 5700 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12 12.1
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.3 6.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 217.0 GB/s 402.4 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 2048 bit
Memory clock speed 1695 MHz (6780 MHz effective) 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)
Memory type GDDR5 HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)