AMD Radeon RX 580X vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 580X and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 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 - 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
  • Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 1247 MHz
  • Around 59% lower typical power consumption: 185 Watt vs 295 Watt
  • 4.2x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1890 MHz
  • Around 32% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 4909 vs 3717
  • Around 32% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 4909 vs 3717
  • 5.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 18294 vs 3358
  • 5.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 18294 vs 3358
  • Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 885 vs 800
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 April 2018 vs 7 August 2017
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 1247 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt vs 295 Watt
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 1890 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 4909 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 4909 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 18294 vs 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 18294 vs 3358
PassMark - G2D Mark 885 vs 800

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

  • Around 15% higher boost clock speed: 1546 MHz vs 1340 MHz
  • 2.1x more texture fill rate: 395.80 GTexel/s vs 192.96 GTexel/s
  • 3.6x more pipelines: 8192 vs 2304
  • 2x better floating-point performance: 12.7 TFLOPs vs 6.2 TFLOPs
  • Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 14744 vs 11616
  • Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 14744 vs 11616
  • Around 85% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 14394 vs 7798
  • 4.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 204168 vs 41822
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1546 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Texture fill rate 395.80 GTexel/s vs 192.96 GTexel/s
Pipelines 8192 vs 2304
Floating-point performance 12.7 TFLOPs vs 6.2 TFLOPs
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14744 vs 11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14744 vs 11616
PassMark - G3D Mark 14394 vs 7798
Geekbench - OpenCL 204168 vs 41822

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 580X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
11616
14744
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
11616
14744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
4909
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
4909
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
18294
3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
18294
3358
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
885
800
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7798
14394
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
41822
204168
Name AMD Radeon RX 580X AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11616 14744
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11616 14744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 4909 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 4909 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 18294 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 18294 3358
PassMark - G2D Mark 885 800
PassMark - G3D Mark 7798 14394
Geekbench - OpenCL 41822 204168
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 195.478
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2129.009
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 14.889
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 129.271
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1328.033
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7522

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 580X AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 5.0
Code name Polaris 20 Vega 10
Design Radeon RX 500X Series Radeon RX Vega Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 3 April 2018 7 August 2017
Place in performance rating 162 170
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $499
Price now $449.99
Value for money (0-100) 41.07

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1340 MHz 1546 MHz
Compute units 36 64
Core clock speed 1257 MHz 1247 MHz
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs 12.7 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 2304 8192
Pixel fill rate 42.88 GP/s 98.90 GP/s
Render output units 32 64
Stream Processors 2304 4096
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s 395.80 GTexel/s
Texture Units 144 256
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt 295 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 12,500 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 840 GFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 26.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.4 TFLOPs

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x 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 279 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Recommended system power (PSU) 750 Watt

API support

DirectX 12 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan
OpenCL 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s 483.8 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 2048 bit
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz 1890 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 HBM2

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
PowerTune
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore