The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 40 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.
Memory
Memory
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G
Memory Size
12 GB
8 GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Clock
2.000 GHz
2.000 GHz
Memory Speed
16.0 Gbps
8.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
256 GB/s
Memory Interface
192 bit
256 bit
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The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is equipped with a 12 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.
The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G
Base Clock
2.321 GHz
1.257 GHz
Boost Clock
2.581 GHz
1.431 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
2.42 GHz
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Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT has a turbo clock of 2.581 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G is 1.431 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G
TDP
230 W
185 W
Tjunction max
100 °C
90 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin
2 x 8-Pin
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The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.
The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G
Fan-Type
Axial
Axial
Fan 1
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2 x 100 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
0 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT are cooled with a Air cooling.
The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.3
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.1
2x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.4a
2x DP 1.4
DVI
--
1
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The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.
The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G
Max. resolution
7680x4320
7680x4320
DirectX
12_2 (Ultimate)
12
Raytracing
Yes
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
Yes
LED
No LED lighting
MSI Mystic Light
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The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).
The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode / Encode
Decode
VP9
Decode / Encode
Decode
AV1
Decode
No
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This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.
Dimensions
Dimensions
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G
Length
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279 mm
Height
--
140 mm
Width
--
50 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
3 Slots
Weight
--
1,209 g
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming+ 8G is -- and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
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The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.
Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.
The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.
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