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GeForce GTX 580 vs GeForce GTX 980

Intro

The GeForce GTX 580 has a GPU core clock speed of 772 MHz, and the 1536 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 1002 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised of 512 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 980, which features core clock speeds of 1126 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

Grand Theft Auto V | 1920x1080 | Very High

GeForce GTX 980 63 FPS
GeForce GTX 580 25 FPS
Difference: 38 (152%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 980 13552 points
GeForce GTX 580 4956 points
Difference: 8596 (173%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 980 should in theory be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 580 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 will be a lot (about 192%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 72064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 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 GeForce GTX 980
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year November 2010 September 2014
Code Name GF110 GM204-400
Memory 1536 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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling 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 that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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 vs GeForce GTX 980”
Haruki Chou says:

looks like the bus width data has been reversed, 384 vs 256

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