AMD Radeon RX 580X vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 580X and AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 26% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 89.3x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3.1x lower typical power consumption: 185 Watt vs 580 Watt
  • Around 48% higher memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 5400 MHz
Launch date 3 April 2018 vs 3 September 2015
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s vs 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt vs 580 Watt
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 5400 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

  • 2.2x more pipelines: 2x 2560 vs 2304
  • 1651.6x better floating-point performance: 2x 5,120 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2x 8 GB vs 8 GB
Pipelines 2x 2560 vs 2304
Floating-point performance 2x 5,120 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
Maximum memory size 2x 8 GB vs 8 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 580X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Name AMD Radeon RX 580X AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
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 885
PassMark - G3D Mark 7798
Geekbench - OpenCL 41822
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 21.128

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 580X AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 2.0
Code name Polaris 20 Grenada
Design Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 3 April 2018 3 September 2015
Place in performance rating 162 247
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $1,399

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1340 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1257 MHz 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs 2x 5,120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2304 2x 2560
Pixel fill rate 42.88 GP/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt 580 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 6,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 4x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s 2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz 5400 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