Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GTX 570

Radeon RX 580
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 580
GeForce GTX 570
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Dec 2010
GeForce GTX 570

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 580

69 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 570 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 570

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 580

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 580

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 580GeForce GTX 570
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)vsGF110 (GF110-275-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs520 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs3,000 million
Shaders2304vs480
Compute Units36vs15
Core clock1120 MHzvs732 MHz
ROPs32vs40
TMUs144vs60

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 580GeForce GTX 570
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs320 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs950 MHz
3800 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1280 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 580GeForce GTX 570
TDP150 wattsvs219 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs7 Dec 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 580
    40.50 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    22.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 580
    182.30 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    43.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 580
    256.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    152.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 580
    5834.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 570
    1405.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better