AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT and AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 16% higher boost clock speed: 1560 MHz vs 1340 MHz
  • Around 16% higher texture fill rate: 224.6 GTexel/s vs 192.96 GTexel/s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 23% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 185 Watt
Launch date 21 Jan 2020 vs 18 April 2017
Boost clock speed 1560 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Texture fill rate 224.6 GTexel/s vs 192.96 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 185 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 1130 MHz
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • 5.3x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
  • 2.1x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3510 vs 1669
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 1130 MHz
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3510 vs 1669

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
1669
3510
Name AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark 13490
PassMark - G2D Mark 871
Geekbench - OpenCL 64726
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 207.909
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3560.776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 20.486
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 148.938
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1111.648
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 13621
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 13621
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1669 3510

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 GCN 4.0
Code name Navi 10 XLE Polaris 20
Launch date 21 Jan 2020 18 April 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $279 $301.69
Place in performance rating 210 363
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Price now $169.99
Value for money (0-100) 62.57

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1560 MHz 1340 MHz
Compute units 36 36
Core clock speed 1130 MHz 1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 449.3 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 14.38 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 7.188 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2304 2304
Pixel fill rate 99.84 GPixel/s 42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate 224.6 GTexel/s 192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 185 Watt
Transistor count 10300 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 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort count 3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Length 10.5 inches (267 mm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt 500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin
Width Dual-slot
Bridgeless CrossFire
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 12
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 256 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) 8000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

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