GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 580 4G
vs
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 580 4G and the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 8G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 580 4G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) and has 2304 texture shaders and 36 execution units.

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 8G is based on AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT, which has 1408 shaders and 22 execution units.
GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 580 4G GPU Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 8G
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip Navi 14 XTX
GCN 4 Architecture RDNA 1
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2304 Shader 1408
32 Render Output Units 32
144 Texture Units 88
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 580 4G has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 8G can access 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 580 4G clocks in the base with up to 1.257 GHz. The base frequency of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 8G is 1.607 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 1.607 GHz
1.380 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.74 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 580 4G is 185 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 8G has a TDP of 135 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

185 W TDP 135 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 580 4G has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 8G has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 85 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 47 dB

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 GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 580 4G.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 8G supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 580 4G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 8G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
GIGABYTE RGB Fusion 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 Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 580 4G is 232 mm long, 121 mm high and 36 mm wide.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 8G is 177 mm long, 102 mm high and 38 mm wide.

232 mm Length 177 mm
121 mm Height 102 mm
36 mm Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 580 4G was released in Q4/2018 at a price of 229 $.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 8G was introduced in Q3/2019 at a price of 169 $ (Reference).

GV-RX580AORUS-4GD Part-no 11295-08-20G
Q4/2018 Release date Q3/2019
229 $ Launch Price 169 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 7 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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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

The Last of Us Part 1

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.

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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