NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2011
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 500
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
1200 MHz
Base Clock
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850 MHz
Boost Clock
—
900 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1536MB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.4GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
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Shading Units
512
1280
TMUs
64
80
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GF110
Neptune
GPU Variant
GF110-380-A1
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
520 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
244W
100W
Suggested PSU
550 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
2.0
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Shader Model
5.1
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.