GeForce RTX 4090 Ti vs Radeon RX 580 2048SP

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking276not rated
Place by popularity5266
Power efficiency9.11no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code namePolaris 20AD102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 October 2018 (6 years ago)2023 (1 year 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 cores204818176
Core clock speed1168 MHz2325 MHz
Boost clock speed1284 MHz2565 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt600 Watt
Texture fill rate164.41,457
Floating-point processing power5.259 TFLOPS93.24 TFLOPS
ROPs32192
TMUs128568
Tensor Coresno data568
Ray Tracing Coresno data142

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 4.0 x16
Length241 mm336 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin2x 16-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount8 GB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s1.15 TB/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 DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 600 Watt

RX 580 2048SP has 300% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090 Ti, on the other hand, has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 580 2048SP and GeForce RTX 4090 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP
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