AMD Radeon RX 580X vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 580X and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
  • 449.5x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 429.3 GTexel / s
  • Around 22% lower typical power consumption: 185 Watt vs 225 Watt
  • 4.2x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1890 MHz
Launch date 3 April 2018 vs 8 August 2017
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s vs 429.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 1890 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

  • Around 12% higher core clock speed: 1406 MHz vs 1257 MHz
  • Around 25% higher boost clock speed: 1677 MHz vs 1340 MHz
  • Around 78% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 2304
  • 2215.8x better floating-point performance: 13,738 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
Core clock speed 1406 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Boost clock speed 1677 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Pipelines 4096 vs 2304
Floating-point performance 13,738 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs

Compare benchmarks

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

Name AMD Radeon RX 580X AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
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
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7765

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 580X AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 5.0
Code name Polaris 20 Vega 10
Design Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 3 April 2018 8 August 2017
Place in performance rating 162 255
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1340 MHz 1677 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1257 MHz 1406 MHz
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs 13,738 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 2304 4096
Pixel fill rate 42.88 GP/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s 429.3 GTexel / s
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt 225 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million

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 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12
OpenGL 4.5
Vulkan

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