Radeon RX 580 vs Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)

Radeon RX 580
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 580
Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 11 Jan 2014
Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 580

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)

135 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 580 .

Radeon RX 580

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 580

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 580Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)vsSpectre ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs245 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs2,410 million
Shaders2304vs512
Compute Units36vs8
Core clock1120 MHzvs720 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs144vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 580Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsSystem Shared
Bus Width256 bitvsSystem Shared
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vsSystem Shared
Memory Size8192 Mbvs0 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 580Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
TDP150 wattsvs15 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs11 Jan 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 580
    40.50 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    5.76 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 580
    182.30 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    23.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 580
    256.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    0.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 580
    5834.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    737.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better