AMD
Radeon RX 580
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Overview
The Radeon RX 580 is AMD's mainstream flagship in the 2017 Polaris RX 500 lineup, based on a higher-clocked Polaris 20 die and succeeding the RX 480. It became one of the most widely adopted AMD cards of its era, known for strong 1080p performance at a competitive price.
It ships with 8GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus, with a TDP near 185W requiring two power connectors. The Polaris 14nm architecture supports DirectX 12, Vulkan, and AMD FreeSync. There is no hardware ray tracing or tensor acceleration on this card, but the 8GB VRAM provided a meaningful longevity advantage over competing 4GB cards of its generation.
The RX 580 was built for confident 1080p gaming at high settings and is capable at 1440p in less demanding titles. Its combination of 8GB VRAM and solid rasterization performance made it a long-running recommendation for budget and midrange builders, and it continued to see widespread use well into the following GPU generations.
Technical Specifications
Architecture & Cores
- Architecture
- GCN 4.0 (Polaris)
- Process Node
- GloFo 14nm
- Stream Processors
- 2,304
Clock Speeds
- Base Clock
- 1,257 MHz
- Boost Clock
- 1,340 MHz
Memory
- VRAM Capacity
- 8 GB
- Memory Type
- GDDR5
- Memory Bus
- 256-bit
- Memory Speed
- 8 Gbps
- Bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
Connectivity & Power
- Interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- TDP
- 185 W
- Power Connectors
- 1x 8-pin
- Released
- Apr 18, 2017
