GeForce GTX 580 and Mobility Radeon HD 3850 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 580
Mobility Radeon HD 3850
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
RV6xx (2007−2010)
GPU code name
GF110
M88
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2010
December 2007
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
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
772 MHz
580 MHz
CUDA cores
512
-
Floating-point performance
1,581.1 gflops
371.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
320
Power consumption (TDP)
244 Watt
55 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
49.4 billion/sec
9.280
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)
750 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.4 GB/s
48 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
+
N/A