NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 980 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

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

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +215%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

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

-

1216 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

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

64

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

244W

450 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 Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF110

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-380-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

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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