GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0)
vs
PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 Red Dragon


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.36 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.66 TFLOPS.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 Red Dragon has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.75 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 8.07 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 Red Dragon is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) GPU PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 Red Dragon
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on AMD Radeon RX 5700
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip Navi 10
GCN 4 Architecture RDNA 1
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 36
2304 Shader 2304
32 Render Output Units 64
144 Texture Units 144
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 Red Dragon has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) has a turbo clock of 1.355 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 Red Dragon is 1.750 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 1.565 GHz
1.355 GHz Boost Clock 1.750 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.72 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) 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 PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 Red Dragon is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

185 W TDP 180 W
-- TDP (up) 220 W
90 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) are cooled with a Air cooling.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 Red Dragon is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 42 dB

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 Red Dragon supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

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
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 Red Dragon supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

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.

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

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) is 36 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 Red Dragon is 36 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

232 mm Length 240 mm
116 mm Height 132 mm
36 mm Width 41 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) was released in Q4/2017.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 Red Dragon published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

GV-RX580GAMING-8GD Part-no --
Q4/2017 Release date Q3/2019
229 $ Launch Price 359 $
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

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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