Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)
1088 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (228W vs 244W)
GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+72%
2720
GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
1581
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jun 2011
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
192.4GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
1600
Shading Units
512
80
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
48
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
244W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GF110
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
GF110-380-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
3 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
