Geforce GTX 780 vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 580, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1257 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs 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 580		13630 points
Geforce GTX 780		10082 points
	Difference: 3548 (35%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 580		28 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 780		20 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (40%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
Geforce GTX 780		250 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (35%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Geforce GTX 780 should be a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 580 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		288384 MB/sec
Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 26240 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 should be a bit (more or less 9%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 780. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 780		165696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15312 (9%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 780 is superior to the Radeon RX 580, but not by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		41424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1200 (3%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.