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Radeon RX 580X
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VRAM
8 GB
CUDA
2,304
FP32
6.175 TF
Bandwidth
256 GB/s
TDP
185W
Boost
1340 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 compute6.175 TFLOPS6%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth256 GB/s14%
vs RTX 5090 D: 1790 GB/s
VRAM capacity8 GB25%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units2,30411%
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 love it for crushing 1080p gaming without breaking the bank. The usual gripe is it runs hot and guzzles power compared to newer cards.
Pros
- Plays modern games at high settings
- Runs cool without loud fan noise
- Handles demanding textures without stutter
- Great value for 1080p gaming
Cons
- No ray tracing hardware support
- Lacks modern encoder quality
- Drivers are now legacy only
Supported technologies
AV1 Encode
Full specifications
Graphics processor
Core configuration
- CUDA Cores
- 2,304
- TMUs
- 144
- ROPs
- 32
- L2 cache
- 2 MB
Memory
- Size
- 8 GB
- Type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 256-bit
- Bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 2000 MHz
Clocks & throughput
- 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
Board & power
- TDP
- 185W
- Suggested PSU
- 350W
- 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 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 580X
A decent 1080p card from 2018 that runs hot and loud under load compared to later options.
Get it if you want a cheap, used card for 1080p gaming at medium settings and don't mind older tech. Skip it if you need modern features like ray tracing or want to play demanding new games at high detail.
Buy it if…
- Buy it if you need a cheap 1080p card for esports games.
- Buy it if you are building a budget retro gaming PC.
- Buy it if you want a basic GPU for a secondary or HTPC rig.
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