
GeForce GTX 580 and Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 580
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GF110
RV630
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2010
February 2008
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0 x 16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin and One 8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
772 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
512
-
Floating-point performance
1,581.1 gflops
168 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
390 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
120
Power consumption (TDP)
244 Watt
45 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
49.4 billion/sec
5.600
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2004 MHz (4008 data rate)
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.4 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI
2x DVI
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
+
N/A