NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 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 10 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 244W)

Score

GeForce GTX 580

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Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

690 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

44.16GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

12

48

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.900 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.900 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

RV570

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Board Design

244W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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