NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (188W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 +72%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 500

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

512

Shading Units

1600

64

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Cypress

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

244W

TDP

188W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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