# AMD Radeon RX 580

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-radeon-rx-580/

6 people recommended AMD Radeon RX 580 in Hacker News comments and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 12 months, in 4 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

3 of the 6 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Every GPU That Mattered”.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a good-value graphics card that stayed competitive for a long time and still runs local AI models well, with the main caveat being AMD dropping ROCm support early.

Summary written by Claude from 9 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Long-lived, strong market position (2 comments in the sample): "an excellent price/performance value and held a respectable spot in the market for a very long time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676298)) "It's basically AMD's 1080ti, except they just kept making them" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678208))

## What people warn about

- ROCm support dropped early (2 comments in the sample): "With the RX 580 there were only 3.7 years after release before ROCm support was pulled." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908034)) "I am critical of AMD for not fully supporting all GPUs based on RNDA1 and RDNA2" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747006))

## Other graphics cards people recommend

- [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090/): 88 recommend, 26 mixed, 18 criticize
- [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090/): 73 recommend, 26 mixed, 34 criticize
- [NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-rtx-pro-6000/): 58 recommend, 15 mixed, 19 criticize
- [AMD Radeon GPU](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-gpus/): 43 recommend, 4 mixed, 29 criticize

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/desktops/radeon.html)

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "AMD Radeon RX 580", https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-radeon-rx-580/ (6 recommend, 0 mixed, 3 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.