AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7850

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850 +11%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Nov 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1024

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

244W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GF110

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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