Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2010 Mar 2014
Generation GeForce 500 Volcanic Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1002 MHz 1250 MHz
Base Clock 827 MHz
Boost Clock 933 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1536MB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 384bit
Bandwidth 192.4GB/s 240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 16
Shading Units 512 1792
TMUs 64 112
ROPs 48 32
L1 Cache 64 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 768 KB
Compute Units 28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 24.70 GPixel/s 29.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 49.41 GTexel/s 104.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.581 TFLOPS 3.344 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 197.6 GFLOPS 836.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GF110 Tahiti
GPU Variant GF110-375-A1 Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Architecture Fermi 2.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 520 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 244W 200W
Suggested PSU 550 W 550 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a 1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A 1.2
CUDA 2.0
Shader Model 5.1 5.1