NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 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 5 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 244W)

Score

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Apr 2006

GeForce 500

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

244W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

NV43

GF110-380-A1

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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