NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages
Lower TDP (108W vs 244W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2005
Release Date
Jun 2011
GeForce 7 PCIe
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
51.20GB/s
Bandwidth
192.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
-
Shading Units
512
24
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
12.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
108W
TDP
244W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G70
GPU Name
GF110
GF-7800-GTX-512-A2
GPU Variant
GF110-380-A1
Curie
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.302 billion
Transistors
3 billion
333 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
3.0
Shader Model
5.1
