Radeon R5 Graphics vs RX 580 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking281not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation24.10no data
Power efficiency13.69no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code namePolaris 20Spectre SL
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$301.69 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores2304256
Core clock speed1000 MHz497 MHz
Boost clock speed1077 MHz720 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate155.17.952
Floating-point processing power4.963 TFLOPS0.2545 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs14416

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)IGP
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed2000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 17 September 2014
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 15 Watt

RX 580 Mobile has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

R5 Graphics, on the other hand, has 566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 580 Mobile and Radeon R5 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 580 Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon R5 Graphics is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile
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