NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

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NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Nov 2005

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 7 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Shading Units

512

24

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

108W

TDP

244W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G70

GPU Name

GF110

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

Curie

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.302 billion

Transistors

3 billion

333 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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