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ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 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

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (106W vs 244W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)
192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 +218%
1.581 TFLOPS
VS

Graphics Card

Jun 2008
Release Date
Jun 2011
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
-
-
-
-
-
1126 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz

Memory

512MB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
72.06GB/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

12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W
TDP
244W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI 1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670
GPU Name
GF110
RV670 XT (215-0708005)
GPU Variant
GF110-380-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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