NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

GPU Specs Compare

G

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

NVIDIA 2010-11
G

AMD Radeon HD 6950

AMD 2010-12

Graphics Card

Release Date
Nov 2010
Dec 2010
Generation
GeForce 500
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1002 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
1536MB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.4GB/s
160.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
16
-
Shading Units
512
1408
TMUs
64
88
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
22

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
70.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS
563.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GF110
Cayman
GPU Variant
GF110-375-A1
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TeraScale 3
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
40 nm
Transistors
3 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
520 mm²
389 mm²

Board Design

TDP
244W
200W
Suggested PSU
550 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
CUDA
2.0
-
Shader Model
5.1
5.0