Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5
vs
PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 and the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) and has 2304 texture shaders and 36 execution units.

PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate is based on AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, which has 5120 shaders and 80 execution units.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 GPU PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip Navi 21
GCN 4 Architecture RDNA 2
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 80
2304 Shader 5120
32 Render Output Units 128
144 Texture Units 320
0 Raytracing Cores 80

Memory

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate can access 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 16.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 clocks in the base with up to 1.257 GHz. The base frequency of the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate is 1.825 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 1.825 GHz
1.366 GHz Boost Clock 2.425 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.24 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 is 225 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate has a TDP of 300 W and is supplied with the required energy via 3 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

225 W TDP 300 W
-- TDP (up) 345 W
90 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 3 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 1 x 90 mm
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 34 dB

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 Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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 Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

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 Decode / Encode
No AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 is 230 mm long, 125 mm high and 40 mm wide.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate is 320 mm long, 135 mm high and 62 mm wide.

230 mm Length 320 mm
125 mm Height 135 mm
40 mm Width 62 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 was released in Q4/2018 at a price of 229 $.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate was introduced in Q2/2021 at a price of 999 $ (Reference).

11265-09 Part-no AXRX 6900XTU 16GBD6-3DHE/OC
Q4/2018 Release date Q2/2021
229 $ Launch Price 999 $ (Reference)
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

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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