Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 LE
vs
ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Mini 4GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 LE and the ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Mini 4GB, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 LE is based on the AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) and has 2304 texture shaders and 36 execution units.

ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Mini 4GB is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, which has 1024 shaders and 8 execution units.
Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 LE GPU ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Mini 4GB
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip GM206-300-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
2304 Shader 1024
32 Render Output Units 32
144 Texture Units 64
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 LE has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Mini 4GB can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 LE clocks in the base with up to 1.257 GHz. The base frequency of the ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Mini 4GB is 1.190 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 1.190 GHz
1.450 GHz Boost Clock 1.253 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 LE is 235 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Mini 4GB has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors.

235 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 LE has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Mini 4GB has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 1 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

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 Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 LE.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Mini 4GB supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 LE supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Mini 4GB is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting 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 No
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 LE is 260 mm long, 135 mm high and 43 mm wide.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Mini 4GB is 170 mm long, 122 mm high and 41 mm wide.

260 mm Length 170 mm
135 mm Height 122 mm
43 mm Width 41 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8G G5 LE was released in Q4/2017 at a price of 229 $.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Mini 4GB was introduced in Q3/2015 at a price of 199 $.

11265-00-20G Part-no GTX960-MOC-4GD5
Q4/2017 Release date Q3/2015
229 $ Launch Price 199 $
14 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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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

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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