GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon Pro 580X

CORE STATE Ellesmere

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1200 MHz

TDP 185 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

50,082

15,163

geekbench_opencl

36,199

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

39,693

38,172

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

Pro 580X

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

2,048 -11.1%

Shaders

2,304

2,048 -11.1%

TMUs

144

128 -11.1%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

36

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Clocks

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

1710 MHz 6.8 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

4,096 -50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

218.9 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

38.40 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

172.8 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.530 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

345.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.530 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

185 W

165 W

TDP (W)

185

165 -10.8%

Suggested PSU

—

450 W

Power Connectors

—

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GM204

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac (500X Series)

GeForce 900

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

5,200 million

Die Size

232 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

IGP

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x HDMI 2.0b

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

—

GeForce 700

Successor

—

GeForce 10

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