NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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), Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1380 - 1485 MHz vs 1340 MHz
  • Around 11% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2304
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 185 Watt
  • Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 8000 MHz
  • Around 64% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12794 vs 7798
  • Around 56% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 18169 vs 11616
  • Around 56% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 18169 vs 11616
  • Around 65% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 68858 vs 41822
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 May 2019 vs 3 April 2018
Boost clock speed 1380 - 1485 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Pipelines 2560 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 185 Watt
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 8000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 12794 vs 7798
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 18169 vs 11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 18169 vs 11616
Geekbench - OpenCL 68858 vs 41822

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580X

  • Around 31% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 780 - 960 MHz
  • Around 56% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 885 vs 566
  • Around 32% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 4909 vs 3716
  • Around 32% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 4909 vs 3716
  • 5.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 18294 vs 3359
  • 5.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 18294 vs 3359
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 780 - 960 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 885 vs 566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 4909 vs 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 4909 vs 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 18294 vs 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 18294 vs 3359

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580X

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
566
885
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12794
7798
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
18169
11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
18169
11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3716
4909
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3716
4909
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
18294
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
18294
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
68858
41822
Name NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX 580X
PassMark - G2D Mark 566 885
PassMark - G3D Mark 12794 7798
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 18169 11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 18169 11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716 4909
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716 4909
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 18294
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 18294
Geekbench - OpenCL 68858 41822

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX 580X

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 4.0
Code name N19E-Q3 MAX-Q Polaris 20
Launch date 27 May 2019 3 April 2018
Place in performance rating 181 162
Type Mobile workstation Desktop, Laptop
Design Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation 4th Gen

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1380 - 1485 MHz 1340 MHz
Core clock speed 780 - 960 MHz 1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 2560 2304
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 185 Watt
Transistor count 13600 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
G-SYNC support
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Length 241 mm

API support

DirectX 12.1 12
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz 8000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s

Technologies

Multi Monitor
VR Ready
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
TrueAudio