ATI Radeon X1950 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 GT

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Nov 2010

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Shading Units

512

12

TMUs

64

12

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

57W

TDP

244W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

GF110

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

R500

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

3 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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