NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

ATI Radeon HD 4860

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 +76%

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

0.896 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

VS

Radeon HD 4860

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

32

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

11.20 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

896.0 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

179.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 Processor

GF110

GPU Name

RV790

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

RV790 GT

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.959 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

282 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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