ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 AGP 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 3850 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 +269%

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Nov 2010

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

52.99GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

320

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

10.69 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

427.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

85.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

244W

250 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 Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GF110

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

3 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

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

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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