Radeon RX 6700 XT vs GeForce GTX 580

Radeon RX 6700 XT
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon RX 6700 XT
GeForce GTX 580
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Nov 2010
GeForce GTX 580

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6700 XT

94 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 580 .
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Infinity Cache allows to deliver up to 3.25x the effective memory bandwidth
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 6700 XT

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 6700 XT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6700 XTGeForce GTX 580
GPU NameNavi 22 (Navi 22 XT)vsGF110 (GF110-375-A1)
Fab Process7 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs520 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs3,000 million
Shaders2560vs512
Compute Units40vs16
Core clock1489 MHzvs772 MHz
ROPs64vs48
TMUs192vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6700 XTGeForce GTX 580
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size12288 Mbvs1536 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6700 XTGeForce GTX 580
TDP150 wattsvs244 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs9 Nov 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6700 XT
    128.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    24.70 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6700 XT
    384.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    49.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6700 XT
    384.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6700 XT
    10240.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 580
    1581.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better