NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +52%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jun 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF110

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-380-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

3 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

244W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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