AMD Radeon RX 560 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 560 XT and AMD Radeon RX 580 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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 - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

AMD Radeon RX 580

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 23% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 185 Watt

Launch date	13 March 2019 vs 18 April 2017
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 185 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580

Around 29% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 973 MHz
Around 25% higher boost clock speed: 1340 MHz vs 1073 MHz
Around 21% higher memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 6600 MHz
Around 25% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 39028 vs 31255

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1257 MHz vs 973 MHz
Boost clock speed	1340 MHz vs 1073 MHz
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 6600 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	39028 vs 31255

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 560 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

31255

39028

Name	AMD Radeon RX 560 XT	AMD Radeon RX 580
Geekbench - OpenCL	31255	39028
PassMark - G3D Mark		8827
PassMark - G2D Mark		767
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		116.142
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1022.932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		9.235
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		84.034
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		607.721
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3349
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1005

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 560 XT	AMD Radeon RX 580
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 4.0
Code name	Ellesmere	Polaris 20
GCN generation	4th Gen	4th Gen
Launch date	13 March 2019	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	713	341
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Price now		$169.99
Value for money (0-100)		76.21
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1073 MHz	1340 MHz
Core clock speed	973 MHz	1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	185 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million	5,700 million
Compute units		36
Floating-point performance		6.2 TFLOPs
Pipelines		2304
Pixel fill rate		42.88 GP/s
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture fill rate		192.96 GTexel/s
Texture Units		144
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Dual-link DVI support
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	241 mm	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.0	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL		2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Memory clock speed	6600 MHz	8000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory bandwidth		256 GB/s
Memory bus width		256 bit
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready