Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2010 Mar 2016
Generation GeForce 500 GeForce 900
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1002 MHz 1653 MHz
Base Clock 1026 MHz
Boost Clock 1190 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1536MB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 128bit
Bandwidth 192.4GB/s 105.8GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 16
Shading Units 512 768
TMUs 64 48
ROPs 48 32
L1 Cache 64 KB (per SM) 48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache 768 KB 1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 24.70 GPixel/s 38.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 49.41 GTexel/s 57.12 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.581 TFLOPS 1.828 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 197.6 GFLOPS 57.12 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GF110 GM206
GPU Variant GF110-375-A1 GM206-251-A1
Architecture Fermi 2.0 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3 billion 2.94 billion
Die Size 520 mm² 228 mm²
Board Design
TDP 244W 75W
Suggested PSU 550 W 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 3.0
Vulkan N/A 1.3
CUDA 2.0 5.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.4