NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 +308%

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

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GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1080 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

128

64

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

96 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

G80

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Board Design

244W

TDP

171W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

1.0

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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