NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon E8950
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2011
Sep 2015
Generation
GeForce 500
Embedded
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
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735 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1536MB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.4GB/s
192.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
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Shading Units
512
2048
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS
256.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GF110
Amethyst
GPU Variant
GF110-380-A1
E8950
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
GCN 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3 billion
5 billion
Die Size
520 mm²
366 mm²
Board Design
TDP
244W
95W
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
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
2.0
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Shader Model
5.1
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.