NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

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

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850 +11%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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