Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2
vs
EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2 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 EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING has 2944 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.80 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.60 TFLOPS.

GPU

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2 is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 46 execution units.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2 GPU EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip TU104
GCN 4 Architecture Turing
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
2304 Shader 2944
32 Render Output Units 64
144 Texture Units 184
0 Raytracing Cores 46

Memory

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2 has a turbo clock of 1.340 GHz. The turbo frequency of the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING is 1.800 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 1.515 GHz
1.340 GHz Boost Clock 1.800 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.71 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2 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 EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 88 °C.

225 W TDP 210 W
-- TDP (up) 245 W
90 °C Tjunction max 88 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 36 dB
-- Noise (Load) 45 dB

Connectivity

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING 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 Addressable LED

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 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2 is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

230 mm Length 269 mm
125 mm Height 111 mm
40 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2 was released in Q4/2017.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING published in Q3/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.

11265-06 Part-no 08G-P4-2182-KR
Q4/2017 Release date Q3/2018
229 $ Launch Price 799 $
14 nm Structure size 12 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)

EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING
8 GB GDDR6
40 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING
8 GB GDDR6
48 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING
8 GB GDDR6
69 fps (avg)

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)

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2
8 GB GDDR5
58 fps (avg)
EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING
8 GB GDDR6
122 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 V2
8 GB GDDR5
83 fps (avg)
EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC GAMING
8 GB GDDR6
171 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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