GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

CORE STATE GF110

VRAM 1536 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 244 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi 2.0

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2010

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_opencl

15,201

33,457

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

geekbench_metal

N/A

15,163

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

38,172

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

GTX 580

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

512

2,048 +300.0%

Shaders

512

2,048 +300.0%

TMUs

64

128 +100.0%

ROPs

48

64 +33.3%

SM Count

16

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1216 MHz

GPU Clock

772 MHz

—

Shader Clock

1544 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1002 MHz 4 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1536 MB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,536

4,096 +166.7%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

384 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

192.4 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1.581 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

197.6 GFLOPS (1:8)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

244 W

165 W

TDP (W)

244

165 -32.4%

Suggested PSU

550 W

450 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GF110

GM204

Generation

GeForce 500

GeForce 900

Process Size

40 nm

28 nm

Transistors

3,000 million

5,200 million

Die Size

520 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

5.8M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

CUDA

2.0

5.2

Shader Model

5.1

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

499 USD

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 400

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 600

GeForce 10

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