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Radeon HD 6990 and GeForce GTX 580 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6990 vs GeForce GTX 580

Radeon HD 6990
3103
GeForce GTX 580
4702

Radeon HD 6990

GeForce GTX 580


Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name
Antilles
GF110

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
March 2011
November 2010

Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0 x 16

Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
One 6-pin and One 8-pin

SLI options
-
+

Core clock speed
830 MHz
772 MHz

CUDA cores
-
512

Floating-point performance
2x 2,549.8 gflops
1,581.1 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm

Number of transistors
2,640 million
3,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
512

Power consumption (TDP)
375 Watt
244 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature
-
97 °C

Texture fill rate
79.68
49.4 billion/sec

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1536 MB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit

Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
2004 MHz (4008 data rate)

Memory bandwidth
160.0 GB/s
192.4 GB/s

Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI

Multi monitor support
-
+

HDMI
-
+

Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal

DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)

CUDA
-
+

OpenCL
1.2
1.1

OpenGL
4.4
4.2

Shader Model
5.0
5.1

Vulkan
N/A
+