AMD Radeon RX 580
Shares rank 32 of 42 graphics cards by recommenders
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.
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.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 70%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Long-lived, strong market position
“an excellent price/performance value and held a respectable spot in the market for a very long time”
Comment from 7 Apr 2026 in “Every GPU That Mattered” “It's basically AMD's 1080ti, except they just kept making them”
Comment from 7 Apr 2026 in “Every GPU That Mattered”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
ROCm support dropped early
“With the RX 580 there were only 3.7 years after release before ROCm support was pulled.”
Comment from 14 Jul 2026 in “Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware” “I am critical of AMD for not fully supporting all GPUs based on RNDA1 and RDNA2”
Comment from 13 Apr 2026 in “Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'”
Other graphics cards people recommend
The four most recommended other graphics cards, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 116 | 21 | 85% | 12 | 5 yrs14 owners | Approved |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | 102 | 37 | 73% | 12 | 1 yr3 owners | Approved |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 | 77 | 26 | 75% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Nvidia GPUs | 67 | 67 | 50% | 11 | 6 yrs3 owners | — |
| AMD Radeon RX 580This page | 7 | 3 | 70% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“which is doing some impressive stuff with Qwen 9B Models”
“With the RX 580 there were only 3.7 years after release before ROCm support was pulled.”
“There is something wrong with the internal fan curve on my old rx580 as well.”
“I am critical of AMD for not fully supporting all GPUs based on RNDA1 and RDNA2”
“It's basically AMD's 1080ti, except they just kept making them”
“This card is really underrated.”
“an excellent price/performance value and held a respectable spot in the market for a very long time”
“a significant upgrade from your current setup”
“the RX580 works fine for my needs”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.