AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

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AMD FireStream 9270 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 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

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9270

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 +31%

1.581 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

VS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Jun 2011

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

512

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GF110

RV770 XT

GPU Variant

GF110-380-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

3 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

160W

TDP

244W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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