AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Pitcairn GF110
GPU variant Pitcairn XT (215-0828047) GF110-375-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Fermi 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 2,800 million 3,000 million
Die size 212 mm² 520 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 5th, 2012 Nov 9th, 2010
Generation Southern Islands GeForce 500
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 349 USD 499 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 95 in our database 136 in our database
Predecessor Northern Islands GeForce 400
Successor Sea Islands GeForce 600

Clocks

GPU clock 1000 MHz 772 MHz
Memory clock 1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective 1002 MHz 4 Gbps effective
Shader clock 1544 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 2 GB 1536 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 384 bit
Bandwidth 153.6 GB/s 192.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1280 512
TMUs 80 64
ROPs 32 48
Compute units 20
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 512 KB 768 KB
SM count 16

Performance

Pixel rate 32.00 GPixel/s 24.70 GPixel/s
Texture rate 80.00 GTexel/s 49.41 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.560 TFLOPS 1.581 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 160.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 197.6 GFLOPS (1:8)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 241 mm 9.5 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
TDP 175 W 244 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI
Power connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board number C401-47 P1261 SKU 02

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan 1.2
Shader model 5.1 5.1
CUDA 2.0

Other Features

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