AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs 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
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
