Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 580
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550 |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 580 |
Supports PhysX |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 550 | | GeForce GTX 580 | |
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GPU Name | Polaris 12 (Baffin XT) | vs | GF110 (GF110-375-A1) |
Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 40 nm |
Die Size | 0 mm² | vs | 520 mm² |
Transistors | unknown | vs | 3,000 million |
Shaders | 640 | vs | 512 |
Compute Units | 10 | vs | 16 |
Core clock | 1125 MHz | vs | 772 MHz |
ROPs | 16 | vs | 48 |
TMUs | 40 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 550 | | GeForce GTX 580 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 384 bit |
Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective | vs | 1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 1536 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 550 | | GeForce GTX 580 | |
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TDP | 0 watts | vs | 244 watts |
Release Date | 1 Apr 2017 | vs | 9 Nov 2010 |
Radeon RX 550
20.83 GP/s
GeForce GTX 580
24.70 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 550
52.10 GT/s
GeForce GTX 580
49.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 550
112.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 580
192.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 550
1666.60 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 580
1581.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better