AMD Radeon RX 580X vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 580X and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 580X

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580X

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 32% higher boost clock speed: 1340 MHz vs 1018 MHz
88.5x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 185 Watt vs 500 Watt
6.4x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Launch date	3 April 2018 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed	1340 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	185 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

2.4x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 2304
1849.4x better floating-point performance: 2x 5,733 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 756 vs 752
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8599 vs 6769

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 2304
Floating-point performance	2x 5,733 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	756 vs 752
PassMark - G3D Mark	8599 vs 6769

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 580X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

752

756

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6769

8599

Name	AMD Radeon RX 580X	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	4909
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	4909
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	18294
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	18294
PassMark - G2D Mark	752	756
PassMark - G3D Mark	6769	8599
Geekbench - OpenCL	41822
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 580X	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Polaris 20	Vesuvius
Design	Radeon RX 500X Series	AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2018	29 April 2014
Place in performance rating	187	190
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,499
Price now		$1,099.99
Value for money (0-100)		11.14
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1340 MHz	1018 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1257 MHz
Floating-point performance	6.2 TFLOPs	2x 5,733 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2304	2x 2816
Pixel fill rate	42.88 GP/s
Render output units	32
Stream Processors	2304	5632
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s	2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	185 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million	6,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Eyefinity
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	241 mm	307 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2 x 8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
API support
DirectX	12	12
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	640 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz	1250 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
TrueAudio
VR Ready
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)