GeForce GTX 580 and GeForce FX 5800 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 580

GeForce FX 5800

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

GF110

NV30

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

November 2010

March 2003

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0 x 16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

One 6-pin and One 8-pin

1x Molex

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

772 MHz

400 MHz

CUDA cores

512

-

Floating-point performance

1,581.1 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

3,000 million

125 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

-

Power consumption (TDP)

244 Watt

44 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

97 °C

-

Texture fill rate

49.4 billion/sec

3.200

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)

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.4 GB/s

12.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

9.0a

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.2

1.5 (2.1)

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

+

N/A