NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

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 8950 OEM +109%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

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

-

Compute Units

28

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

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1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

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 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

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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