NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +147%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

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GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

512

104

TMUs

64

56

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF110

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

148W

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

2x 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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