Radeon RX 580
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How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
Performance breakdown
FPS Across Resolutions
Average FPS across all PC games
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($229) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
What Owners Say
Owners love it for being a cheap, reliable 1080p card that still plays modern games at medium settings. The usual gripe is it runs hot and drinks power like it’s free.
- Great 1080p gaming for cheap
- Plays modern games at high settings
- Still gets driver updates from AMD
- Runs older games with zero effort
- Pulls too much power for its age
- Lacks modern ray tracing support
- Noisy under heavy gaming load
Supported technologies
Full specifications
- CUDA Cores
- 2,304
- TMUs
- 144
- ROPs
- 32
- L2 cache
- 2 MB
- Size
- 8 GB
- Type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 256-bit
- Bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 2000 MHz
- Base clock
- 1257 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1340 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 6.175 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 6.175 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 43 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 193 GTexel/s
- TDP
- 185W
- Suggested PSU
- 350W
- Power connectors
- 1x 8-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Length
- 241 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 (12_0)
- Shader Model
- 6.4
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.0
- Vulkan
- 1.2.131
Our verdict on the RX 580
The AMD Radeon RX 580 is a reliable 1080p workhorse from 2017 that still gets the job done, but its age shows in power draw.
Get it if you need a cheap, reliable 1080p card for older games and don't mind high power draw. Skip it if you want modern features, ray tracing, or efficient performance for newer titles.
Buy it if…
- You want a cheap 1080p card for older games.
- You run Linux and need solid open-source driver support.
- You are building a budget eSports rig for CS2 or Valorant.
Its place in the overall top
2,213 votes