GeForce GTX 780 vs Radeon RX 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1340MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (185W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780

4156

Radeon RX 580 +48%

6175

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 780

2795

Radeon RX 580 +56%

4362

GeForce GTX 780

VS

Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 700

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

2304

Shading Units

2304

192

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

185W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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