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Best Bench: 56% Gigabyte(1458 22F1)
Worst Bench: 46% ASRock(1849 5030) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 46% Great: 56%

SPEED RANK: 124^th / 713

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Best Bench: 40% AMD(1002 3000) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 32% AMD(1002 3000) 3GB

Poor: 32% Great: 40%

SPEED RANK: 155^th / 713


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		51.6 %	Much faster effective speed. +42%		36.4 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	65.2 fps	Much better lighting effects. +32%	49.3 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	62.2 fps	Much better reflection handling. +70%	36.5 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	63.9 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +95%	32.7 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	73.4 fps	Much faster NBody calculation. +43%	51.5 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	72 fps	Much better peak lighting effects. +32%	54.6 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	66.4 fps	Much better peak reflection handling. +64%	40.5 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	68.3 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +88%	36.3 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	81.5 fps	Much faster peak NBody calculation. +42%	57.3 fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	1.09 %	Insanely higher market share. +∞%	0 %
Value Value For Money	102 %	Hugely better value. +414%	19.8 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	77 %	Much more popular. +33%	58 %
Price Price (score)	$120	Much cheaper. +72%	$435


Age Newest	91 Months	Much more recent. +41%	155 Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	98.9 fps	Much better peak texture detail. +39%	71.1 fps
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	49.4 fps	Much faster peak complex splatting. +70%	29 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	88.4 fps	Much better texture detail. +41%	62.8 fps
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	46.4 fps	Much faster complex splatting. +79%	25.9 fps

The RX 580 launched this week and is AMD’s latest flagship GPU which is based on a second generation Polaris architecture. The 580 is a refresh of the RX 480 which was released just 10 months ago. Modifications to the architecture have resulted in improved thermals and increased clock speeds by around 10%. The RX 580 will come with either 4GB or 8GB of high-bandwidth GDDR5 memory. Exact pricing for this mid-range chip remains to be seen, but the RX 500 series is likely to cannibalize sales of AMD’s 400 series. Performance wise, the RX 580 is in direct competition with NVIDIA’s popular GTX 1060 6GB which is now 9 months old. Perhaps after last year’s ill timed head to head release of the RX 480 and the faster but similarly priced GTX 1060 (a standoff which NVIDIA seem to have won based on market share), AMD are attempting to draw back some market share with the newer, slightly upgraded RX 580. ^{[Apr '17 GPUPro]}

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