NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +147%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

1664

64

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

56

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

148W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GM204

GF110-380-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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