Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 580

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GTX 580
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Nov 2010
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 580
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsGF110 (GF110-375-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs520 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs3,000 million
Shaders640vs512
Compute Units10vs16
Core clock1125 MHzvs772 MHz
ROPs16vs48
TMUs40vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 580
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1536 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 580
TDP0 wattsvs244 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs9 Nov 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    24.70 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    49.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 580
    1581.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better