AMD Radeon RX 580 VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD Radeon RX 580

amd

Brand

8GB GDDR5

Memory

2304

Cores

256 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 580

N/A Apr 2017 View Details
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

nvidia

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

2048

Cores

224.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 980

N/A Sep 2014 View Details
AMD Radeon RX 580

Radeon RX 580

$229 • Apr 2017

VS

GeForce GTX 980

$549 • Sep 2014

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
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Specs Comparison

SpecificationAMD Radeon RX 580NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
8 GB 4 GB
GDDR5GDDR5
185 W165 W
N/AN/A
1340 MHz 1216 MHz
256 GB/s 224.4 GB/s
14nm 28nm
GCN 4.0Maxwell 2.0
2304 2048
N/AN/A
144 128
3264
256-bit256-bit
2000 MHz 1753 MHz
42.88 GPixel/s77.82 GPixel/s
256 GTexel/s 224.4 GTexel/s
6.175 GFLOPS 4.981 GFLOPS
2.00 MB2.00 MB
232 mm²398 mm²
5700 Million 5200 Million
450 W450 W
1x 8-pin2x 6-pin
PCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
1212.1
1.31.3
4.64.6
GlobalFoundriesTSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Background
3DMark

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

4176 (+17%)

AMD Radeon RX 580

3574

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Geekbench Background
Geekbench

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

40514 (+21%)

AMD Radeon RX 580

33492

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

GFXBench Background
GFXBench

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

FPS

AMD Radeon RX 580

FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Passmark Background
Passmark

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

8835

AMD Radeon RX 580

11113 (+26%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Game Benchmarks Comparison (198 benchmarks)

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Valkyria Chronicles 4

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 Action, RPG, Strategy

1080p
| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+23%)
AVG 144 FPS
MIN 131 FPS
Radeon RX 580
AVG 117 FPS
MIN 105 FPS
1440p
| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+40%)
AVG 116 FPS
MIN 106 FPS
Radeon RX 580
AVG 83 FPS
MIN 76 FPS
2160p
| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+40%)
AVG 60 FPS
MIN 56 FPS
Radeon RX 580
AVG 43 FPS
MIN 41 FPS
Winner
Loser
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Pathfinder Kingmaker

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 Adventure, RPG

1080p
| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+20%)
AVG 115 FPS
MIN 110 FPS
Radeon RX 580
AVG 96 FPS
MIN 92 FPS
1440p
| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+18%)
AVG 73 FPS
MIN 69 FPS
Radeon RX 580
AVG 62 FPS
MIN 58 FPS
2160p
| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+23%)
AVG 37 FPS
MIN 34 FPS
Radeon RX 580
AVG 30 FPS
MIN 29 FPS
Winner
Loser
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Dying Light Bad Blood

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 Action, RPG, Early Access

1080p
| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 (+3%)
AVG 72 FPS
MIN 61 FPS
Radeon RX 580
AVG 70 FPS
MIN 58 FPS
1440p
| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+4%)
AVG 48 FPS
MIN 41 FPS
GeForce GTX 980
AVG 46 FPS
MIN 39 FPS
2160p
| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 (+0%)
AVG 26 FPS
MIN 21 FPS
Radeon RX 580 (+0%)
AVG 26 FPS
MIN 22 FPS
Winner
Loser
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Immortal Unchained

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 Action, Adventure, RPG

1080p
| high

Radeon RX 580 (+2%)
AVG 89 FPS
MIN 81 FPS
GeForce GTX 980
AVG 87 FPS
MIN 78 FPS
1440p
| high

Radeon RX 580 (+4%)
AVG 55 FPS
MIN 51 FPS
GeForce GTX 980
AVG 53 FPS
MIN 48 FPS
2160p
| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+4%)
AVG 26 FPS
MIN 24 FPS
GeForce GTX 980
AVG 25 FPS
MIN 23 FPS
Winner
Loser
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Shadows Awakening

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 Action, RPG

1080p
| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+9%)
AVG 102 FPS
MIN 96 FPS
GeForce GTX 980
AVG 94 FPS
MIN 88 FPS
1440p
| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+22%)
AVG 66 FPS
MIN 63 FPS
GeForce GTX 980
AVG 54 FPS
MIN 51 FPS
2160p
| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+24%)
AVG 31 FPS
MIN 29 FPS
GeForce GTX 980
AVG 25 FPS
MIN 23 FPS
Winner
Loser
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Strange Brigade

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 Action, Adventure

1080p
| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+18%)
AVG 87 FPS
MIN 67 FPS
GeForce GTX 980
AVG 74 FPS
MIN 59 FPS
1440p
| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+21%)
AVG 64 FPS
MIN 52 FPS
GeForce GTX 980
AVG 53 FPS
MIN 44 FPS
2160p
| ultra

Radeon RX 580 (+26%)
AVG 39 FPS
MIN 33 FPS
GeForce GTX 980
AVG 31 FPS
MIN 26 FPS
Winner
Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

AMD Radeon RX 580 Wins!

Based on 198 benchmarks across 66 games

50
Avg FPS
Radeon RX 580
VS
+0.9%
49
Avg FPS
GeForce GTX 980
AMD Radeon RX 580

AMD Radeon RX 580

AMD • 8GB GDDR5

104
Wins
50
Avg FPS
42
Min FPS
53%
Win Rate
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA • 4GB GDDR5

77
Wins
49
Avg FPS
41
Min FPS
39%
Win Rate

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