NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (244W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +70%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 500

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Cayman

GF110-380-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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