NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2012
Nov 2010
Generation
GeForce 600
GeForce 500
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
915 MHz
-
Boost Clock
980 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
1536MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
192.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1344
512
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
768 KB
SM Count
-
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.44 GPixel/s
24.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
109.8 GTexel/s
49.41 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.634 TFLOPS
1.581 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
109.8 GFLOPS
197.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GK104
GF110
GPU Variant
GK104-325-A2
GF110-375-A1
Architecture
Kepler
Fermi 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
3 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
520 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
244W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.1
N/A
CUDA
3.0
2.0
Shader Model
5.1
5.1