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Radeon RX 580 and GeForce GTX 980 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GTX 980

Radeon RX 580
9140
GeForce GTX 980
11457

Radeon RX 580

GeForce GTX 980


Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name
Polaris 20
GM204

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
April 2017
September 2014

Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)
-
500 Watt

Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pins

SLI options
-
+

Boost clock speed
1340 MHz
1216 MHz

Core clock speed
1257 MHz
1064 MHz

CUDA cores
-
2048

Floating-point performance
6,175 gflops
4,981 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
5,700 million
5,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
2048

Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
165 Watt

Texture fill rate
193.0
144 billion/sec

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
7.0 GB/s

Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
224 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Multi monitor support
-
4 displays

VGA аnalog display support
-
+

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+

HDMI
+
+

HDCP
-
+

Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536

G-SYNC support
-
+

Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)

CUDA
-
+

OpenCL
2.0
1.2

OpenGL
4.6
4.5

Shader Model
6.4
6.4

Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126

BatteryBoost
-
+

GameStream
-
+

GameWorks
-
+

GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+

GPU Boost
-
2.0

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+

Optimus
-
+