Radeon RX 580 2048SP: specs and benchmarks

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Radeon RX 580 2048SP provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 19.93% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 580 2048SP sales 15 October 2018. 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 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 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 150 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 580 2048SP: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking276
Place by popularity52
Power efficiency9.11of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code namePolaris 20
Market segmentDesktop
Release date15 October 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon RX 580 2048SP's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 580 2048SP's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2048of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1168 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed1284 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)150 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate164.4of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power5.259 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs128of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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 2048SP: 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 speed1750 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 580 2048SP. 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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon RX 580 2048SP, 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 2048SP. 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 2048SP 19.93

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 2048SP 7681

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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.

Closest competitors

Radeon RX 580 2048SP's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


Radeon R9 290 105.37
Radeon RX 580 2048SP 100

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 580 2048SP is GeForce GTX 1650, which is faster by 3% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon RX 580 2048SP:

Radeon RX 580 2048SP 100

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