Radeon RX 580: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon RX 580 provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 22.98% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 580 sales 18 April 2017 at a recommended price of $229 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 4.0 architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 256.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 241 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 185 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 580: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking244
Place by popularity1
Cost-effectiveness evaluation18.54
Power efficiency8.51of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code namePolaris 20
Market segmentDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Radeon RX 580's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 580's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2304of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1257 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed1340 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors5,700 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)185 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate193.0of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power6.175 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (GRID A100A)
TMUs144of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 580 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length241 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 580: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed2000 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 580. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon RX 580, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 580. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RX 580 22.98

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RX 580 8852

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

RX 580 19274

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

RX 580 44344

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

RX 580 13927

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

RX 580 82516

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

RX 580 348952

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX 580 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD97
1440p40
4K35

Cost per frame, $

1080p2.36
1440p5.73
4K6.54

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 35−40

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 58
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 35−40
Battlefield 5 138
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 45−50
Cyberpunk 2077 35−40
Far Cry 5 83
Far Cry New Dawn 83
Forza Horizon 4 294
Hitman 3 45−50
Horizon Zero Dawn 100−110
Metro Exodus 111
Red Dead Redemption 2 60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 122
Watch Dogs: Legion 95−100

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 101
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 35−40
Battlefield 5 113
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 45−50
Cyberpunk 2077 35−40
Far Cry 5 69
Far Cry New Dawn 64
Forza Horizon 4 270
Hitman 3 45−50
Horizon Zero Dawn 100−110
Metro Exodus 87
Red Dead Redemption 2 60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 75−80
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 50−55
Watch Dogs: Legion 95−100

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 34
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 35−40
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 45−50
Cyberpunk 2077 35−40
Far Cry 5 49
Forza Horizon 4 82
Hitman 3 45−50
Horizon Zero Dawn 100−110
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 75−80
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 44
Watch Dogs: Legion 95−100

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 60−65

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 40−45
Far Cry New Dawn 35−40

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 24−27
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 21−24
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 24−27
Cyberpunk 2077 14−16
Far Cry 5 24−27
Forza Horizon 4 130−140
Hitman 3 27−30
Horizon Zero Dawn 45−50
Metro Exodus 53
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 45−50
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 27−30
Watch Dogs: Legion 130−140

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 35−40

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 37
Far Cry New Dawn 22
Hitman 3 18−20
Horizon Zero Dawn 110−120
Metro Exodus 33
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 27

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 18
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 12−14
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 12−14
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Far Cry 5 16
Forza Horizon 4 41
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 27−30
Watch Dogs: Legion 10−11

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 20−22

Closest competitors

Radeon RX 580's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 580 is GeForce GTX TITAN Z, which is faster by 1% and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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