AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1284MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +1167%

5.259 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Dec 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

-

1284 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

192

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

41.09 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

164.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

5.259 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.259 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

328.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GT200B

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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