AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition 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: 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 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 45% higher core clock speed: 1120-1257 MHz vs 771 MHz
  • Around 59% higher boost clock speed: 1266-1340 MHz vs 797 MHz
  • 1891.8x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 102.0 GTexel / s
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 1536
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
Launch date 18 April 2018 vs 8 November 2013
Core clock speed 1120-1257 MHz vs 771 MHz
Boost clock speed 1266-1340 MHz vs 797 MHz
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s vs 102.0 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2304 vs 1536
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

  • 394.8x better floating-point performance: 2,448 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
  • Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 122 Watt vs 185 Watt
Floating-point performance 2,448 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 122 Watt vs 185 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

Name AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 33.184
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1002.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.261
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 54.752
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 126.579
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6912
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 6703
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 117
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 108.2
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 119.7

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Kepler
Code name Ellesmere GK104
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 18 April 2018 8 November 2013
Launch price (MSRP) $229
Place in performance rating not rated 879
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1266-1340 MHz 797 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1120-1257 MHz 771 MHz
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs 2,448 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2304 1536
Pixel fill rate 42.88 GP/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s 102.0 GTexel / s
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt 122 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 3,540 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Length 241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz 5000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 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
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready