NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Lower TDP (244W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +159%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

VS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

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

32.00 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

244W

TDP

375W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Malta

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

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

365 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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