GeForce 7900 GX2 and Radeon RX 580 2048SP - video card comparison

GeForce 7900 GX2

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

G71

Polaris 20

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2006

October 2018

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1284 MHz

Core clock speed

500 MHz

1168 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

278 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

Texture fill rate

12.00

164.4

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MHz

7000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131