AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2012
Jun 2011
Generation
London
GeForce 500
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
1536MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
192.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
—
Shading Units
1280
512
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
768 KB
SM Count
—
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
24.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
49.41 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
1.581 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
197.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Wimbledon
GF110
GPU Variant
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
GF110-380-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Fermi 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
3 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
520 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
244W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
550 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
CUDA
—
2.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.