MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G
vs
ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition LHR


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.34 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.60 TFLOPS.

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition LHR has 5888 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.85 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 21.72 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition LHR is based on the Ampere architecture and is equipped with 46 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G GPU ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition LHR
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 LHR
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip GA104-302-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Ampere
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
2304 Shader 5888
32 Render Output Units 96
144 Texture Units 184
0 Raytracing Cores 46

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition LHR 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 MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G has a turbo clock of 1.340 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition LHR is 1.845 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 1.500 GHz
1.340 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.82 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G 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 ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition LHR is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

185 W TDP 220 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition LHR is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 120 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition LHR supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.1
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition LHR supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
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 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 5 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition LHR is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 5 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

269 mm Length 310 mm
125 mm Height 147 mm
38 mm Width 88 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 5 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G was released in Q3/2018.

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition LHR published in Q4/2021 is manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q3/2018 Release date Q4/2021
229 $ Launch Price 499 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 8 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

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

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.

3840x2160 (2160p)

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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