NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation and AMD Radeon RX 580 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, 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 RTX 2000 Ada Generation

  • Around 30% higher core clock speed: 1635 MHz vs 1257 MHz
  • Around 58% higher boost clock speed: 2115 MHz vs 1340 MHz
  • Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 203.0 GTexel/s vs 192.96 GTexel/s
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 3072 vs 2304
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 14 nm
  • 3.7x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 185 Watt
  • Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1113 vs 767
  • Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17402 vs 8827
  • 2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 79941 vs 39028
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1635 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Boost clock speed 2115 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Texture fill rate 203.0 GTexel/s vs 192.96 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3072 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 185 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1113 vs 767
PassMark - G3D Mark 17402 vs 8827
Geekbench - OpenCL 79941 vs 39028

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580

  • 4x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1113
767
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
17402
8827
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
79941
39028
Name NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon RX 580
PassMark - G2D Mark 1113 767
PassMark - G3D Mark 17402 8827
Geekbench - OpenCL 79941 39028
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 116.142
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1022.932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.235
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 84.034
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 607.721
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3349
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1005

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon RX 580

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace GCN 4.0
Code name AD107 Polaris 20
Place in performance rating 50 341
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $229
Price now $169.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 76.21

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2115 MHz 1340 MHz
Core clock speed 1635 MHz 1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 3072 2304
Pixel fill rate 67.68 GPixel/s 42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate 203.0 GTexel/s 192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 185 Watt
Compute units 36
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture Units 144
Transistor count 5,700 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Length 241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 256.0 GB/s 256 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 8000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready