NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 56.83GB/s)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580M +8%

0.952 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4870

0.88 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 500M

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

888 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

56.83GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

8

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

800

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.920 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

39.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.00 GTexel/s

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

880.0 GFLOPS

79.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

176.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

M98

N12E-GTX2-A1

GPU Variant

M98 XT L2 (216-0732023)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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