GeForce GTX 580 vs GeForce 8800 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 580 Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
400 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8800 GT Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 244W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 580
+370%
1581
GeForce 8800 GT
336
Graphics Card
Nov 2010
Release Date
Oct 2007
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1002 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.4GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
14
512
Shading Units
112
64
TMUs
56
48
ROPs
16
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
24.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
49.41 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
1.581 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
197.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
244W
TDP
125W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF110
GPU Name
G92
GF110-375-A1
GPU Variant
G92-270-A2
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
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
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
