Radeon R9 295X2 and GeForce GTX 580 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTX 580
Radeon R9 295X2
8876
GeForce GTX 580
4702
Radeon R9 295X2
GeForce GTX 580
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Vesuvius
GF110
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
November 2010
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2 x 8-pin
One 6-pin and One 8-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1018 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
772 MHz
CUDA cores
-
512
Floating-point performance
2x 5,733 gflops
1,581.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
512
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
244 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
97 °C
Texture fill rate
179.2
49.4 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
2004 MHz (4008 data rate)
Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
192.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.2
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
+
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-