GeForce GTX 580 and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 580
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF110
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2010
May 2009
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0 x 16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin and One 8-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
772 MHz
580 MHz
CUDA cores
512
-
Floating-point performance
1,581.1 gflops
278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
96
Power consumption (TDP)
244 Watt
140 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
49.4 billion/sec
27.84
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2004 MHz (4008 data rate)
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.4 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
+
N/A