NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

392 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 +723%

1.581 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

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ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

512

Shading Units

120

64

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

RV630

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

244W

TDP

45W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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