GeForce GTX 580 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 570, which features core speeds of 1168 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 570		12108 points
GeForce GTX 580		4956 points
	Difference: 7152 (144%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
	Difference: 94 Watts (63%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 570 should theoretically be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 580 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
	Difference: 36992 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 should be much (more or less 203%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 100096 (203%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 570 is superior to the GeForce GTX 580, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 320 (1%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.