NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Lower TDP (244W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +262%

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

512

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

244W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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