NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580M

0.952 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +73%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 500M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

384

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.920 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

39.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

79.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Saturn

N12E-GTX2-A1

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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