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

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5600M 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, 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 5600M

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5600M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
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
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 8000 MHz

Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 18 April 2017
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 185 Watt
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz vs 8000 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1340 MHz vs 1265 MHz
Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 182.2 GTexel/s
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
2.7x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3510 vs 1320

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1340 MHz vs 1265 MHz
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s vs 182.2 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3510 vs 1320

Compare benchmarks

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

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1320

3510

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5600M	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark	8845
PassMark - G2D Mark	486
Geekbench - OpenCL	55534
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11117
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8904
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	7694
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11117
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8904
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	7694
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1320	3510

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5600M	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA	GCN 4.0
Code name	Navi 10	Polaris 20
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	238	363
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$301.69
Price now		$169.99
Value for money (0-100)		62.57
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1265 MHz	1340 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	2304	2304
Texture fill rate	182.2 GTexel/s	192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	185 Watt
Transistor count	10300 million	5,700 million
Compute units		36
Core clock speed		1257 MHz
Floating-point performance		6.2 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate		42.88 GP/s
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture Units		144
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size	medium sized	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bridgeless CrossFire
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
API support
DirectX	12	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.4
OpenCL		2.0
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	12000 MHz	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