Radeon Pro Vega 48 vs RX 580G

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated191
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code namePolaris 20Vega 10
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date15 October 2018 (6 years ago)19 March 2019 (5 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 cores23043072
Core clock speed1257 MHz1200 MHz
Boost clock speed1330 MHz1300 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million12,500 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Wattno data
Texture fill rate191.5249.6
Floating-point processing power6.129 TFLOPS7.987 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs144192

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 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5HBM2
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz786 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s402.4 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.125

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 October 2018 19 March 2019

Pro Vega 48 has an age advantage of 5 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 580G and Radeon Pro Vega 48. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 580G is a desktop card while Radeon Pro Vega 48 is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX 580G
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