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Radeon RX 580 2048SP
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VRAM
8 GB
CUDA
2,048
FP32
5.259 TF
Bandwidth
224 GB/s
TDP
150W
Boost
1284 MHz
Strengths at a Glance
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.
FP32 compute5.259 TFLOPS5%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth224 GB/s13%
vs RTX 5090 D: 1790 GB/s
VRAM capacity8 GB25%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units2,0489%
vs RTX 5090 D: 21,760
Power efficiency11/10019%
vs RTX 5090 D: 58/100
Synthetic Benchmarks
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
3DMark Time Spy6,480pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)2,700pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)832spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute33,600pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts
Performance breakdown
Gaming18
Ray tracing15
AI / Compute14
Creator / 3D16
Power efficiency11
Real-World Gaming
FPS Across Resolutions
1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 16 fps
1080p
21
1440p
16
4K
10
Call of Duty: MW IIIavg 22 fps
1080p
30
1440p
22
4K
14
Alan Wake 2avg 13 fps
1080p
17
1440p
13
4K
8
Forza Horizon 5avg 23 fps
1080p
31
1440p
23
4K
14
Baldur's Gate 3avg 19 fps
1080p
25
1440p
19
4K
12
Community Feedback
What Owners Say
Owners praise it as a solid 1080p card that still handles most games fine. The usual gripe is it runs hot and loud under load, needing a good fan curve.
Pros
- Plays modern games at 1080p fine
- Stays cool in most cases
- Eight gigs future-proofs your games
- Good value on the used market
Cons
- No modern driver support
- Lacks ray tracing completely
- Fan noise under heavy load
Supported technologies
AV1 Encode
Full specifications
Graphics processor
Core configuration
- CUDA Cores
- 2,048
- TMUs
- 128
- ROPs
- 32
- L2 cache
- 2 MB
Memory
- Size
- 8 GB
- Type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 256-bit
- Bandwidth
- 224 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 1750 MHz
Clocks & throughput
- Base clock
- 1168 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1284 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 5.259 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 5.259 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 41 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 164.4 GTexel/s
Board & power
- TDP
- 150W
- Suggested PSU
- 300W
- Power connectors
- 1x 8-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Length
- 241 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x DVI, 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
Verdict
Our verdict on the RX 580 2048SP
The RX 580 2048SP is a rebadged, cut-down Polaris chip that trades raw speed for lower power draw.
Get it if you need a cheap, reliable 1080p card for older games and don’t care about modern features. Skip it if you want to play new titles at high settings or use ray tracing.
Buy it if…
- You’re building a budget 1080p gaming PC from used parts.
- You need a cheap GPU with lots of memory for modded older games.
- You want a reliable workhorse for esports titles like Fortnite or CS2.
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