GeForce GTX 580 and Radeon HD 7970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 580 vs Radeon HD 7970
GeForce GTX 580
4702
Radeon HD 7970
5405
GeForce GTX 580
Radeon HD 7970
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GF110
Tahiti XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2010
December 2011
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0 x 16
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin and One 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
925 MHz
Core clock speed
772 MHz
-
CUDA cores
512
-
Floating-point performance
1,581.1 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
244 Watt
300 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
49.4 billion/sec
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
6 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
2004 MHz (4008 data rate)
1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.4 GB/s
264 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-