NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +176%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

16

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

64

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

244W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GF110

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-380-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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