MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G Benchmark and Specs

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G is equipped with 36 execution and 2304 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 5.82 TFLOPS is achieved.

Based on

AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU)

GPU Chip

Polaris 20 XT (GCN 4)

Streaming Multiprocessors

36

Shader

2304

Render Output Units

32

Texture Units

144

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G has a 256 bit wide memory interface, with which a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s is achieved. In total, 8 GB GDDR5 graphics memory is available for the graphics card.

Memory Size

8 GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Clock

2.000 GHz

Memory Speed

8.0 Gbps

Memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

Memory Interface

256 bit

The manufacturer specifies the memory clock of the MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G with 1.257 GHz (base clock) or with 1.393 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock

1.257 GHz

Boost Clock

1.393 GHz+4 %

Overclocking

Yes

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G has 1 x 8-Pin plugs, which supply the graphics card with energy. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.

TDP

185 W

Tjunction max

90 °C

PCIe-Power

1 x 8-Pin

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G is equipped with 2 Axial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type

Axial

Fan 1

2 x 100 mm

Cooler-Type

Air cooling

Noise (Idle)

0 dB / Silent

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G, whereby the backward-compatible HDCP copy protection is supported in the 2.2 version.

Max. Displays

4

HDCP

2.2

HDMI

2x HDMI 2.0b

DisplayPort

2x DP 1.4

DVI

1

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels and the DirectX standard version 12.

Max. resolution

7680x4320

DirectX

12

Raytracing

No

DLSS / FSR

Yes

LED

MSI Mystic Light

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G in hardware in order to minimize the processor load.

h264

Decode / Encode

h265 / HEVC

Decode / Encode

VP8

Decode

VP9

Decode

AV1

No

The dimensions of the MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G are 276 mm in length, 140 mm in height and 42 mm in width. Thus 2 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length

276 mm

Height

140 mm

Width

42 mm

Width (Slots)

2 PCIe-Slots

Weight

978 g

SFF-Ready

No

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G is manufactured in a structure width of 14 nm and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q3/2018.

GPU Interface

PCIe 3.0 x 16

Release date

Q3/2018

Launch Price

229 $

Structure size

14 nm

Documents

data sheet