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GeForce GTX 580 3GB vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 580 3GB uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 772 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1002 MHz on this particular card. It features 512 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has GPU core speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G 110 Watts
GeForce GTX 580 3GB 244 Watts
Difference: 134 Watts (122%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 580 3GB should theoretically be a bit better than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580 3GB 192384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G 179200 MB/sec
Difference: 13184 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be a lot (more or less 26%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB 49408 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12992 (26%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 580 3GB is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580 3GB 37056 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G 31200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5856 (19%)

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 Radeon R7 370 2G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2010 June 2015
Code Name GF110 Trinidad
Memory 3072 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 772 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Speed 4008 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 244 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 192384 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 49408 Mtexels/sec 62400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 37056 Mpixels/sec 31200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 512 1024
Texture Mapping Units 64 64
Render Output Units 48 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3000 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
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 transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 580 3GB

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Radeon R7 370 2G

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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