Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.41 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.90 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition has 9728 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.51 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 48.74 TFLOPS.

GPU

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture and is equipped with 76 execution units.
Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip AD103-300-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Ada Lovelace
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 76
2304 Shader 9728
32 Render Output Units 112
144 Texture Units 304
0 Raytracing Cores 76

Memory

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition has a 16 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.400GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6X
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.400 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 22.4 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 736 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 has a turbo clock of 1.411 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition is 2.505 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 2.205 GHz
1.411 GHz Boost Clock 2.505 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 has 1 x 6-Pin, 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition is equipped with a 1 x 16-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.

235 W TDP 320 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 16-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 2 x 110 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 38 dB

Connectivity

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition 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 1x HDMI v2.1
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition 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 Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 is 43 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition is 43 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

260 mm Length 304 mm
135 mm Height 137 mm
43 mm Width 61 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 was released in Q4/2017.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition published in Q4/2022 is manufactured with a structure width of 5 nanometers.

11265-01 / 11265-03 / 11265-34 Part-no --
Q4/2017 Release date Q4/2022
229 $ Launch Price 1,199 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 5 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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