NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 +723%

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Dec 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

8

512

Shading Units

64

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

244W

TDP

95W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

G94

GF110-380-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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