NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 +231%

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

192

64

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GT200

GF110-380-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

244W

TDP

182W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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