AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

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AMD Radeon R9 M280X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X 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 R9 M280X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X +88%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M

0.952 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

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GeForce GTX 580M

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Jun 2011

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

384

56

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.920 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.68 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GF114

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GPU Variant

N12E-GTX2-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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