NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 NVIDIA · 2011-06
GPU AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 AMD · 2011-09
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2011
Sep 2011
Generation
GeForce 500
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1536MB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.4GB/s
134.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
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Shading Units
512
960
TMUs
64
48
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
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12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
38.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GF110
Barts
GPU Variant
GF110-380-A1
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
40 nm
Transistors
3 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
520 mm²
255 mm²
Board Design
TDP
244W
254W
Suggested PSU
550 W
600 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 8-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.