Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

Radeon RX 580
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 580
GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XMOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 580

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 580GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)vsGP104 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs16 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs314 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs7,200 million
Shaders2304vs2560
Compute Units36vs20
Core clock1120 MHzvs1556 MHz
ROPs32vs64
TMUs144vs160

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 580GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5X
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 580GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
TDP150 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs15 Aug 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 580
    40.50 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    99.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 580
    182.30 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    249.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 580
    256.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    320.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 580
    5834.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    7967.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better