NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q and AMD Radeon RX 580X 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
  • Around 28% higher pipelines: 2944 vs 2304
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 23% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 185 Watt
  • Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 8000 MHz
  • Around 69% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13154 vs 7798
  • Around 91% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 79991 vs 41822
  • Around 65% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 19139 vs 11616
  • Around 81% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8905 vs 4909
  • Around 65% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 19139 vs 11616
  • Around 81% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8905 vs 4909
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 January 2019 vs 3 April 2018
Pipelines 2944 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 185 Watt
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz vs 8000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 13154 vs 7798
Geekbench - OpenCL 79991 vs 41822
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19139 vs 11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8905 vs 4909
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19139 vs 11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8905 vs 4909

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580X

  • Around 71% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 735 MHz
  • Around 22% higher boost clock speed: 1340 MHz vs 1095 MHz
  • Around 64% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 885 vs 538
  • 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 18294 vs 8060
  • 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 18294 vs 8060
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed 1340 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 885 vs 538
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 18294 vs 8060
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 18294 vs 8060

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580X

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
13154
7798
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
538
885
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
79991
41822
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
19139
11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8905
4909
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8060
18294
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
19139
11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8905
4909
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8060
18294
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX 580X
PassMark - G3D Mark 13154 7798
PassMark - G2D Mark 538 885
Geekbench - OpenCL 79991 41822
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 297.996
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3676.805
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 22.75
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 162.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1116.69
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19139 11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8905 4909
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8060 18294
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19139 11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8905 4909
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8060 18294
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7990

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX 580X

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 4.0
Code name TU104B Polaris 20
Launch date 29 January 2019 3 April 2018
Place in performance rating 143 162
Type Laptop Desktop, Laptop
Design Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation 4th Gen

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1095 MHz 1340 MHz
Core clock speed 735 MHz 1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 2944 2304
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 185 Watt
Transistor count 13,600 million 5,700 million
Compute units 36
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate 42.88 GP/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s
Texture Units 144

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 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
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 12
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz 8000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s

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