Spieth, who has a victory and two runner-up finishes at Augusta in the last three years, said he would have to be on top form to defeat Johnson at the first major of year, which starts on April 6.
"I think Dustin Johnson is the guy to beat in golf no matter where you are," Spieth said at a news conference on Wednesday.
"If I play my best golf, I believe that I can take down anybody, and you have to believe that.
"But I think that he is the guy that everyone is saying he's playing the best golf in the world right now.
"Major championships have huge weight and I'm not focussed on trying to win majors to get to number one any more," the 23-year-old added.
"So, that side of things, getting number one isn't the pressure that I feel, but that's the only way to really take big strides towards him because I don't think he's letting up any time soon."
(Reporting by Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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