NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (150W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 +45%

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

VS

GeForce GTX 560

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

7

512

Shading Units

336

64

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.34 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

45.36 GTexel/s

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

90.72 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GF114

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

GF114-325-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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