NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 NVIDIA · 2010-11
GPU AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition AMD · 2012-08
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2010
Aug 2012
Generation
GeForce 500
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1536MB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.4GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
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Shading Units
512
1440
TMUs
64
72
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
18
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
52.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
2.088 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS
417.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GF110
Cypress
GPU Variant
GF110-375-A1
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
40 nm
Transistors
3 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
520 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
244W
151W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-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
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.