NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition +81%

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

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Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

512

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

244W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

2x 6-pin

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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