AMD Radeon Pro VII vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro VII and AMD Radeon RX 580X 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro VII

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1257 MHz
  • Around 27% higher boost clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1340 MHz
  • 2.1x more texture fill rate: 408 GTexel/s vs 192.96 GTexel/s
  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2304
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
  • 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 89655 vs 41822
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 May 2020 vs 3 April 2018
Core clock speed 1400 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Boost clock speed 1700 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Texture fill rate 408 GTexel/s vs 192.96 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3840 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 89655 vs 41822

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580X

  • Around 35% lower typical power consumption: 185 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • 8x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro VII
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580X

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
89655
41822
Name AMD Radeon Pro VII AMD Radeon RX 580X
Geekbench - OpenCL 89655 41822
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 4909
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 4909
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 18294
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 18294
PassMark - G2D Mark 657
PassMark - G3D Mark 6459

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro VII AMD Radeon RX 580X

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 GCN 4.0
Code name Vega 20 Polaris 20
Launch date 13 May 2020 3 April 2018
Launch price (MSRP) $1899
Place in performance rating 198 195
Type Desktop Desktop, Laptop
Design Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation 4th Gen

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1700 MHz 1340 MHz
Compute units 60 36
Core clock speed 1400 MHz 1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.06 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 2304
Pixel fill rate 108.8 GPixel/s 42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate 408 GTexel/s 192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 185 Watt
Transistor count 13230 million 5,700 million
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture Units 144

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 6x mini-DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 305 mm (12 inches) 241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Width 111 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12.1 12
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 1024 GB/s 256 GB/s
Memory bus width 4096 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective) 8000 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
TrueAudio
VR Ready