NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 500W)

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2 +262%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Apr 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

1250 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

2816

64

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

500W

550 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Vesuvius

GF110-380-A1

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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