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GeForce GTX 580 3GB vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

The GeForce GTX 580 3GB features core clock speeds of 772 MHz on the GPU, and 1002 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 512 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1717 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 130 Watts
GeForce GTX 580 3GB 244 Watts
Difference: 114 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should in theory be just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB 192384 MB/sec
Difference: 36992 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is quite a bit (about 206%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 151096 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB 49408 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 101688 (206%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should be a lot (about 48%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 54944 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB 37056 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 17888 (48%)

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 3GB Radeon RX 5500 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2010 December 2019
Code Name GF110 Navi 14 XTX
Memory 3072 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 772 MHz 1717 MHz
Memory Speed 4008 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 244 watts 130 watts
Bandwidth 192384 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 49408 Mtexels/sec 151096 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 37056 Mpixels/sec 54944 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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 580 3GB

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Radeon RX 5500 XT

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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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