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GeForce GTX 580 3GB vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 580 3GB features a clock speed of 772 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1002 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 512 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, which features core clock speeds of 915 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1344 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 580 3GB 244 Watts
Difference: 94 Watts (63%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 580 3GB should be 34% quicker than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580 3GB 192384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 144000 MB/sec
Difference: 48384 (34%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti is much (about 107%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 102480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB 49408 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 53072 (107%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 580 3GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580 3GB 37056 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 21960 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 15096 (69%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 580 3GB GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year November 2010 August 2012
Code Name GF110 GK104
Memory 3072 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 772 MHz 915 MHz
Memory Speed 4008 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 244 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 192384 MB/sec 144000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 49408 Mtexels/sec 102480 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 37056 Mpixels/sec 21960 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 512 1344
Texture Mapping Units 64 112
Render Output Units 48 24
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3000 million 3540 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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Comments

One Response to “GeForce GTX 580 3GB vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti”
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