AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +212%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Nov 2010

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GF110

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

244W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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