The gaming enthusiast community may be eagerly waiting for AMD Vega to arrive, but AMD breathed life into the AMD Polaris microarchitecture with a refreshed line-up, which they called the AMD Radeon RX 500 Series. Headlined by the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Amazon), the Polaris Refined series is basically an overclocked version of the Radeon RX 400 series.

AMD is pitching the Radeon RX 500 Series as a great upgrade option for gamers with 3 years or older systems, with the introduction of 27 new graphics cards. But just how much faster is the new Radeon RX 580 (Amazon) compared to its predecessor, the Radeon RX 480, and the NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards? Let’s find out in this performance comparison!

• Benchmarking Notes, 3DMark Benchmark Results
• Ashes of the Singularity & Total War: Warhammer Benchmark Results
• The Witcher 3 & For Honor Benchmark Results
• Mass Effect: Andromeda Benchmark Results, Our Verdict

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Radeon RX 580 Specification Comparison

Here are the specifications of the five graphics cards in this performance comparison :

Specifications	GeForce GTX 1050 Ti	Radeon RX 480	Radeon RX 580	GeForce GTX 1060	GeForce GTX 1070
Texture Units	48	144	144	80	120
ROPs	32	32	32	48	64
Core Speed	1290 MHz	1120 MHz	1257 MHz	1506 MHz	1506 MHz
Boost Speed	1392 MHz	1266 MHz	1340 MHz	1708 MHz	1683 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (Max)	61.9 GT/s	182.3 GT/s	193.0 GT/s	136.6 GT/s	202.0 GT/s
Pixel Fill Rate (Max)	44.5 GP/s	40.5 GP/s	42.9 GP/s	82.0 GP/s	107.7 GP/s
Memory Bus Width	128-bits	256-bits	256-bits	192-bits	256-bits
Graphics Memory	4 GB GDDR5	8 GB GDDR5	8 GB GDDR5	6 GB GDDR5	8 GB GDDR5
Memory Speed	1752 MHz	1750 MHz	2000 MHz	2000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	112 GB/s	224 GB/s	256 GB/s	192 GB/s	256 GB/s
TDP	75 W	150 W	185 W	120 W	150 W

 

Further Reading On The Radeon RX 500 Series

• The AMD Radeon RX 500 Series Tech Report
• The 27 New AMD Radeon RX 500 Graphics Cards Revealed!
• The AMD Radeon RX 500 Series Tech Briefing

 

Further Reading On AMD Vega

• The AMD Vega GPU Architecture Tech Report
• The AMD Vega Memory Architecture Q&A with Jeffrey Cheng
• Watch AMD Vega Run DOOM On Vulkan!

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