NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon 550X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 +26%

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 500

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1082 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Lexa

GF110-380-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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