GeForce GTX 580 and Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 580
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GF110
Cypress
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2010
March 2010
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 + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
772 MHz
850 MHz
CUDA cores
512
-
Floating-point performance
1,581.1 gflops
2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
244 Watt
228 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
49.4 billion/sec
68.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2004 MHz (4008 data rate)
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.4 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI
6x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
+
N/A