AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2012
Jun 2011
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 500
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
1536MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
192.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
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Shading Units
1536
512
TMUs
96
64
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
768 KB
SM Count
—
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
24.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
88.80 GTexel/s
49.41 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.842 TFLOPS
1.581 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
710.4 GFLOPS
197.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF110
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
GF110-380-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Fermi 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
3 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
520 mm²
Board Design
TDP
185W
244W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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.