NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition
vs
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition has 10496 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.70 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 35.58 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.39 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.82 TFLOPS.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ampere architecture, which has 82 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition GPU MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Based on AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU)
GA102-300-A1 GPU Chip Polaris 20 XT
Ampere Architecture GCN 4
82 Streaming Multiprocessors 36
10496 Shader 2304
112 Render Output Units 32
328 Texture Units 144
82 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition is equipped with a 24 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.219 GHz clocks.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

24 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR5
1.219 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
19.5 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
936 GB/s Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition has a turbo clock of 1.695 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G is 1.393 GHz.

1.395 GHz Base Clock 1.257 GHz
1.695 GHz Boost Clock 1.393 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 93 °C.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.

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

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 110 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
37 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

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

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
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

313 mm Length 276 mm
138 mm Height 140 mm
-- Width 42 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 978 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 8 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition was released in Q3/2020.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G published in Q3/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

900-1G136-2510-000 Part-no --
Q3/2020 Release date Q3/2018
1,499 $ Launch Price 229 $
8 nm Structure size 14 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)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition
24 GB GDDR6X
112 fps (avg)
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G
8 GB GDDR5
31 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition
24 GB GDDR6X
188 fps (avg)
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G
8 GB GDDR5
60 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition
24 GB GDDR6X
200 fps (avg)
MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G
8 GB GDDR5
86 fps (avg)

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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