AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) and NVIDIA Titan X Pascal 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
  • 562.7x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 342.9 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 35% lower typical power consumption: 185 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 57% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3510 vs 2242
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 2 August 2016
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s vs 342.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3510 vs 2242

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

  • Around 13% higher core clock speed: 1417 MHz vs 1257 MHz
  • Around 14% higher boost clock speed: 1531 MHz vs 1340 MHz
  • Around 56% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 2304
  • 1770x better floating-point performance: 10,974 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 8000 MHz
Core clock speed 1417 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Boost clock speed 1531 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Pipelines 3584 vs 2304
Floating-point performance 10,974 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz vs 8000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
3510
2242
Name AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) NVIDIA Titan X Pascal
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3510 2242
Geekbench - OpenCL 66999
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 165.792
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2368.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.829
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 21.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 992.132
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10841
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3333
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10841
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3333

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
Code name Polaris 20 GP102
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 2 August 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $301.69 $1,199
Place in performance rating 374 371
Price now $169.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 62.57

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1340 MHz 1531 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1257 MHz 1417 MHz
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs 10,974 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 16 nm
Pipelines 2304 3584
Pixel fill rate 42.88 GP/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s 342.9 GTexel / s
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 11,800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s 480.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz 10008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5X
Shared memory 0 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