AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +128%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M

0.952 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

VS

GeForce GTX 580M

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jun 2011

London

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.920 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.68 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GF114

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N12E-GTX2-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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