NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock967MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +173%

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce GTX 580M

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jun 2011

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

-

967 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

1344

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

64

24

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.920 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.68 GTexel/s

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GF114

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N12E-GTX2-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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