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GeForce GTX 580 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

The GeForce GTX 580 has a clock frequency of 772 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1002 MHz. It also features a 384-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 512 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1670 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 580 244 Watts
Difference: 94 Watts (63%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500 should theoretically perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 580 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 580 192384 MB/sec
Difference: 36992 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be much (more or less 197%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 49408 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 97552 (197%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 37056 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 16384 (44%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 580 Radeon RX 5500
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2010 October 2019
Code Name GF110 Navi 14 XT
Memory 1536 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 772 MHz 1670 MHz
Memory Speed 4008 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 244 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 192384 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 49408 Mtexels/sec 146960 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 37056 Mpixels/sec 53440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 512 1408
Texture Mapping Units 64 88
Render Output Units 48 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 384-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 7 nm
Transistors 3000 million 6400 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 580

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Radeon RX 5500

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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