GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 580, which comes with clock speeds of 1257 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		17120 points
Radeon RX 580		13630 points
	Difference: 3490 (26%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		425 Sol/s
Radeon RX 580		315 Sol/s
	Difference: 110 (35%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 580		28 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		22 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (27%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (35%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 28% quicker than the Radeon RX 580 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 73856 (28%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 should be just a bit (approximately 3%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5008 (3%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 139%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 580, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 55776 (139%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.