Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Apr 2013 | Nov 2010 |
| Generation | Sea Islands | GeForce 500 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 950 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1000 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1002 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 1536MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 384bit |
| Bandwidth | 288.0GB/s | 192.4GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 32 | |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 512 |
| TMUs | 128 | 64 |
| ROPs | 32 | 48 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 64 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | 768 KB |
| SM Count | 16 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 32.00 GPixel/s | 24.70 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 128.0 GTexel/s | 49.41 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 4.096 TFLOPS | 1.581 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 1024 GFLOPS | 197.6 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Malta | GF110 |
| GPU Variant | Malta XT(215-0849026) | GF110-375-A1 |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Fermi 2.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 4.313 billion | 3 billion |
| Die Size | 365 mm² | 520 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 375W | 244W |
| Suggested PSU | 750 W | 550 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 | 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a |
| Power Connectors | 2x 8-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | N/A |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 5.1 |
| CUDA | 2.0 | |