ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX 580
vs
AMD Radeon RX 480

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX 580 has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.36 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.68 TFLOPS.

The AMD Radeon RX 480 has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.27 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.83 TFLOPS.

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX 580 is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card AMD Radeon RX 480 is based on the Ellesmere architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX 580 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The AMD Radeon RX 480 has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX 580 has a turbo clock of 1.360 GHz. The turbo frequency of the AMD Radeon RX 480 is 1.266 GHz.

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX 580 has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 90 °C.

The AMD Radeon RX 480 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX 580 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The AMD Radeon RX 480 is cooled by a Air cooling.

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX 580 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The AMD Radeon RX 480 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX 580 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The AMD Radeon RX 480 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_0.

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.

The ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX 580 is 52 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the AMD Radeon RX 480 is 52 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, ASUS AREZ Strix Radeon RX 580 was released in Q2/2018.

The AMD Radeon RX 480 published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.