Radeon RX 480 and GeForce GTX 580 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce GTX 580
Radeon RX 480
8883
GeForce GTX 580
4702
Radeon RX 480
GeForce GTX 580
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
GF110
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2016
November 2010
Bus support
n/a
PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
One 6-pin and One 8-pin
SLI options
-
+
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
-
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
772 MHz
CUDA cores
-
512
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
1,581.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
512
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
244 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
97 °C
Texture fill rate
182.3
49.4 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
2004 MHz (4008 data rate)
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
192.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
2.0
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
+
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
-
FRTC
1
-
HD3D
n/a
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
+
-