GeForce GTX 580 and Radeon X1950 XTX - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 580

Radeon X1950 XTX

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

R500 (2005−2007)

GPU code name

GF110

R580+

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

November 2010

October 2006

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

1x 6-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

772 MHz

650 MHz

CUDA cores

512

-

Floating-point performance

1,581.1 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

3,000 million

384 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

-

Power consumption (TDP)

244 Watt

125 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

97 °C

-

Texture fill rate

49.4 billion/sec

10.40

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR4

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

512 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

2004 MHz (4008 data rate)

2000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.4 GB/s

64 GB/s

Display Connectors

Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.2

2.0

Shader Model

5.1

3.0

Vulkan

+

N/A