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AMD Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

Radeon RX 580
VS
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
AMD Radeon RX 580
Polaris 20
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
GP104

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 580 with 2304 shaders against the 6 months newer GeForce GTX 1070 Ti that utilizes 19 pipelines and 2432 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
8 GB GDDR5
VS
8 GB GDDR5
48.2
(Average)
Value Index
21.1
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1070 Ti over RX 580
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 580
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 14 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
  • Performs significantly better (up to 59%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 67% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 45 vs 27 FPS
  • 32% higher maximum theoretical performance (8.2 vs 6.2 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 43% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (57K vs 40K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 580
vs
GTX 1070 Ti

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
76
39
31
17
97
56
45
29
The Witcher 3
50
41
22
12
95
77
53
27
Counter-Strike 2
74
55
38
15
149
104
78
37
Far Cry 6
59
49
35
17
78
70
52
25
Hogwarts Legacy
34
26
20
9
54
42
31
16
CoD: Modern Warfare III
48
42
27
15
63
52
37
23
Ghost of Tsushima
33
23
19
10
49
37
26
13
Cyberpunk 2077
33
27
16
-
51
48
26
12
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
60
52
32
15
87
77
53
28
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 52 80
1080p Ultra 39 63
1440p Ultra 27 45
4K Ultra 13 23
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 580
4183
GTX 1070 Ti +59%
6671
Time Spy 4354 6842
Solar Bay - 18306
Port Royal 527 1554
Fire Strike 14980 20113
Wild Life Extreme 8907 13255
Night Raid 56859 78888
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 580
40514
GTX 1070 Ti +43%
57735
Background Blur 59.5 img/sec 149.2 img/sec
Face Detection 33.8 img/sec 67.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.56 Gpixels/sec 2.36 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.1 Gpixels/sec 3.57 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.92 Gpixels/sec 4.32 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.33 Gpixels/sec 0.27 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 161.8 Gpixels/sec 209.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5395.1 FPS 6584.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 580
n/a
GTX 1070 Ti
3806

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 580
8782
GTX 1070 Ti +67%
14668
G2D Mark 770 876
DirectX 11 60 FPS 106 FPS
DirectX 12 43 FPS 52 FPS
GPU Compute 3409 Ops/s 7166 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 33466 & 13017 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 580
391.86
GTX 1070 Ti +60%
626.69
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 91 & 393 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 580
7905
GTX 1070 Ti +13%
8949
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 580
8166
GTX 1070 Ti +7%
8769
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 580
5642
GTX 1070 Ti +16%
6546
Image Classification (SP) 3143 3473
Image Segmentation (HP) 3955 5149
Image Super Resolution (Q) 7872 9722
Face Detection (HP) 11922 9306
Pose Estimation (Q) 41162 34870
Text Classification (SP) 1199 2139
Machine Translation (HP) 1773 2424
Object Detection (SP) 3620 4566
Depth Estimation (Q) 13995 14316
Style Transfer (SP) 84083 88984
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 580 and GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released April 18, 2017 November 2, 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $229 -
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
GPU Codename Polaris 20 GP104
Rival Equivalent - GeForce GTX 1060 - Radeon RX 5600 XT
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 8500 or above - Intel Core i7 7700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (83rd and 74th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1257 MHz 1607 MHz
Boost Clock 1340 MHz 1683 MHz
Shading Units 2304 2432
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 152
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 19
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache 16KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 43 GPixel/s 108 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 193 GTexel/s 256 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 580
6.2 TFLOPS
GTX 1070 Ti +32%
8.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 185 W 180 W
Manufacturing GlobalFoundries TSMC
Fabrication Process 14 nm 16 nm
Die Size 232 mm² 314 mm²
Transistor Count 5 billion 7 billion
Transistor Density 21.55 MTr/mm² 22.29 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 2002 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps 8000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 580
256 GB/s
GTX 1070 Ti
256.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 6.1
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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Total votes: 27

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