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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs RX 580

Radeon RX 6500 XT
VS
Radeon RX 580
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Navi 24
AMD Radeon RX 580
Polaris 20

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB with 1024 shaders against the 4 years and 10 months older RX 580 8 GB that utilizes 2304 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
DeviceFacts 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
4 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR5
22.7
(Mediocre)
Value Index
48.2
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 580 over RX 6500 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6500 XT
  • Performs slightly better (up to 14%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 31% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (53K vs 40K)
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 580
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Has 78% higher memory bandwidth: 256 vs 143.9 GB/s
  • Has 2.3x more shading units (2304 vs 1024)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 6500 XT
vs
RX 580

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
84
46
33
22
76
39
31
17
The Witcher 3
60
50
28
14
50
41
22
12
Counter-Strike 2
95
67
44
18
74
55
38
15
Far Cry 6
64
54
40
16
59
49
35
17
Hogwarts Legacy
36
28
21
12
34
26
20
9
CoD: Modern Warfare III
54
42
33
18
48
42
27
15
Ghost of Tsushima
39
29
21
10
33
23
19
10
Cyberpunk 2077
36
30
18
-
33
27
16
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
70
61
36
19
60
52
32
15
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 60 52
1080p Ultra 45 39
1440p Ultra 30 27
4K Ultra 15 13
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 6500 XT +14%
4763
RX 580
4183
Time Spy 4942 4354
Solar Bay 20010 -
Port Royal 368 527
Fire Strike 15575 14980
Wild Life Extreme 8990 8907
Night Raid 65355 56859
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6500 XT +31%
53081
RX 580
40514
Background Blur 130.3 img/sec 59.5 img/sec
Face Detection 70.1 img/sec 33.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.59 Gpixels/sec 1.56 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.21 Gpixels/sec 3.1 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.02 Gpixels/sec 2.92 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.33 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 223 Gpixels/sec 161.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7470.5 FPS 5395.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 6500 XT
2030
RX 580
n/a

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6500 XT +10%
9617
RX 580
8782
G2D Mark 817 770
DirectX 11 90 FPS 60 FPS
DirectX 12 38 FPS 43 FPS
GPU Compute 4296 Ops/s 3409 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 3351 & 33466 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6500 XT +8%
424.41
RX 580
391.86
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 119 & 91 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 6500 XT +31%
10359
RX 580
7905
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6500 XT +57%
12861
RX 580
8166
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6500 XT +39%
7842
RX 580
5642
Image Classification (SP) 3867 3143
Image Segmentation (HP) 5136 3955
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11758 7872
Face Detection (HP) 14844 11922
Pose Estimation (Q) 42787 41162
Text Classification (SP) 1986 1199
Machine Translation (HP) 2665 1773
Object Detection (SP) 4251 3620
Depth Estimation (Q) 19707 13995
Style Transfer (SP) 101802 84083
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6500 XT and RX 580

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 19, 2022 April 18, 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $199 $229
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 4.0
GPU Codename Navi 24 Polaris 20
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3050 - GeForce GTX 1060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12400 or above - Intel Core i5 8500 or above
Desktop GPU rating (79th and 83rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2310 MHz 1257 MHz
Boost Clock 2815 MHz 1340 MHz
Shading Units 1024 2304
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 16 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 16KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 90 GPixel/s 43 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 180 GTexel/s 193 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6500 XT
5.8 TFLOPS
RX 580 +7%
6.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 107 W 185 W
Manufacturing TSMC GlobalFoundries
Fabrication Process 6 nm 14 nm
Die Size 107 mm² 232 mm²
Transistor Count 5 billion 5 billion
Transistor Density 46.73 MTr/mm² 21.55 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Size 4 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2248 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 8000 Mbps
Bus 64-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6500 XT
143.9 GB/s
RX 580 +78%
256 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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Total votes: 57

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