NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X 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 72.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 +30%

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Feb 2014

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

80W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GF110-380-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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