AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2014
Jun 2011
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 500
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
1002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
1536MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
384bit
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
192.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
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Shading Units
2816
512
TMUs
176
64
ROPs
64
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
768 KB
SM Count
—
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
24.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
49.41 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
1.581 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
197.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
GF110
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
GF110-380-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Fermi 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
3 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
520 mm²
Board Design
TDP
580W
244W
Suggested PSU
950 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
CUDA
—
2.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.