CMP 50HX vs Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking274not rated
Place by popularity62not in top-100
Power efficiency9.26no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code namePolaris 20TU102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date15 October 2018 (6 years ago)24 June 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores20483584
Core clock speed1168 MHz1350 MHz
Boost clock speed1284 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate164.4296.6
Floating-point processing power5.259 TFLOPS11.07 TFLOPS
ROPs3280
TMUs128192
Tensor Coresno data448
Ray Tracing Coresno data56

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length241 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB10 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s560.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 October 2018 24 June 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 10 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 250 Watt

RX 580 2048SP has 66.7% lower power consumption.

CMP 50HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 25% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 580 2048SP and CMP 50HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 580 2048SP is a desktop card while CMP 50HX is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP
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