AMD Radeon Sky 900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Tahiti GF110
GPU variant Orthrus GF110-375-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Fermi 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 4,313 million 3,000 million
Die size 352 mm² 520 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 27th, 2013 Nov 9th, 2010
Generation Radeon Sky GeForce 500
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Launch price 499 USD
Reviews 136 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 400
Successor GeForce 600

Clocks

Base clock 825 MHz
Boost clock 950 MHz
Memory clock 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective 1002 MHz 4 Gbps effective
GPU clock 772 MHz
Shader clock 1544 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 1536 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 384 bit 384 bit
Bandwidth 240.0 GB/s 192.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1792 512
TMUs 112 64
ROPs 32 48
Compute units 28
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 768 KB 768 KB
SM count 16

Performance

Pixel rate 30.40 GPixel/s 24.70 GPixel/s
Texture rate 106.4 GTexel/s 49.41 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 3.405 TFLOPS 1.581 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 851.2 GFLOPS (1:4) 197.6 GFLOPS (1:8)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 305 mm 12 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
TDP 300 W 244 W
Suggested PSU 700 W 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI
Power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board number C476 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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