ASRock Radeon RX 580 Phantom Gaming Elite 8G
vs
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASRock Radeon RX 580 Phantom Gaming Elite 8G and the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASRock Radeon RX 580 Phantom Gaming Elite 8G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) and has 2304 texture shaders and 36 execution units.

EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, which has 2048 shaders and 16 execution units.
ASRock Radeon RX 580 Phantom Gaming Elite 8G GPU EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip GM204-400-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
2304 Shader 2048
32 Render Output Units 64
144 Texture Units 128
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASRock Radeon RX 580 Phantom Gaming Elite 8G has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASRock Radeon RX 580 Phantom Gaming Elite 8G clocks in the base with up to 1.257 GHz. The base frequency of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 is 1.279 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 1.279 GHz
1.345 GHz Boost Clock 1.380 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASRock Radeon RX 580 Phantom Gaming Elite 8G is 185 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 has a TDP of 165 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

185 W TDP 165 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASRock Radeon RX 580 Phantom Gaming Elite 8G has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the ASRock Radeon RX 580 Phantom Gaming Elite 8G.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x DP v1.2
-- DVI Ports 2
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASRock Radeon RX 580 Phantom Gaming Elite 8G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The ASRock Radeon RX 580 Phantom Gaming Elite 8G is 240 mm long, 129 mm high and 42 mm wide.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 is 267 mm long, 111 mm high and -- wide.

240 mm Length 267 mm
129 mm Height 111 mm
42 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

The ASRock Radeon RX 580 Phantom Gaming Elite 8G was released in Q2/2017 at a price of 229 $.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 was introduced in Q1/2015 at a price of 649 $.

RX580 PGE 8G Part-no 04G-P4-2986-KR
Q2/2017 Release date Q1/2015
229 $ Launch Price 649 $
14 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

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.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

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.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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