ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (244W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +32%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Nov 2010

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1440

Shading Units

512

72

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

302W

TDP

244W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x 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

Hemlock

GPU Name

GF110

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

GF110-375-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

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