NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2011
Dec 2010
Generation
GeForce 500
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1536MB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.4GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
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Shading Units
512
1536
TMUs
64
96
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
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24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS
675.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GF110
Cayman
GPU Variant
GF110-380-A1
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TeraScale 3
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
40 nm
Transistors
3 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
520 mm²
389 mm²
Board Design
TDP
244W
250W
Suggested PSU
550 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
CUDA
2.0
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Shader Model
5.1
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.