NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580M

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +179%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

924 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.920 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

39.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

79.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

GM204

N12E-GTX2-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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