GeForce GTX 580 and FireGL 8800 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 580

FireGL 8800

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

GPU code name

GF110

R200

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

November 2010

August 2001

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0 x 16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

One 6-pin and One 8-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

772 MHz

300 MHz

CUDA cores

512

-

Floating-point performance

1,581.1 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

3,000 million

60 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

-

Power consumption (TDP)

244 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

97 °C

-

Texture fill rate

49.4 billion/sec

2.400

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

128 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

2004 MHz (4008 data rate)

580 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.4 GB/s

9.28 GB/s

Display Connectors

Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI

1x DVI, 1x VGA

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

8.1

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.2

1.4

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

+

N/A