NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 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

Lower TDP (244W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2 +159%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

375W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF110-380-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

352 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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