NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2016
Nov 2010
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 500
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1026 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1190 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
1002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
1536MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
105.8GB/s
192.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
768
512
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
768 KB
SM Count
-
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
38.08 GPixel/s
24.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
57.12 GTexel/s
49.41 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.828 TFLOPS
1.581 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.12 GFLOPS
197.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
GF110
GPU Variant
GM206-251-A1
GF110-375-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Fermi 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
3 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
520 mm²
Board Design
TDP
75W
244W
Suggested PSU
250 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
5.2
2.0
Shader Model
6.4
5.1