NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 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 GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

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

1408 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +308%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1683 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

15

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

512

120

TMUs

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GF110

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-375-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

Board Design

150W

TDP

244W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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