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GeForce GTX 580 3GB vs GeForce GTX 980

Intro

The GeForce GTX 580 3GB has core clock speeds of 772 MHz on the GPU, and 1002 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 512 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 980, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1126 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980 165 Watts
GeForce GTX 580 3GB 244 Watts
Difference: 79 Watts (48%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 980 should in theory be a bit better than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 224000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB 192384 MB/sec
Difference: 31616 (16%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 is a lot (more or less 192%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 144128 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB 49408 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 94720 (192%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 72064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB 37056 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 35008 (94%)

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 980
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year November 2010 September 2014
Code Name GF110 GM204-400
Memory 3072 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 772 MHz 1126 MHz
Memory Speed 4008 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 244 watts 165 watts
Bandwidth 192384 MB/sec 224000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 49408 Mtexels/sec 144128 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 37056 Mpixels/sec 72064 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 512 2048
Texture Mapping Units 64 128
Render Output Units 48 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3000 million 5200 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

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

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Comments

One Response to “GeForce GTX 580 3GB vs GeForce GTX 980”
Aditya says:

my Laptop Lenovo z580 ,so Jion Laptop,desktop Alienware Graphics, Nvidia Geforce GTX 980,
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