NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM 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

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 +153%

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

480

64

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

244W

TDP

60W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Turks

GF110-380-A1

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

118 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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