ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

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ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 +448%

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

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GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Nov 2010

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

3

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

512

12

TMUs

64

12

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.212 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

7.212 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

288.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GF110

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

3 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

244W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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