NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M vs AMD Radeon E8950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580M

0.952 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +330%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 500M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

735 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

8

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.920 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

39.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

79.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

95W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Amethyst

N12E-GTX2-A1

GPU Variant

E8950

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

5 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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