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GeForce GTX 580 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 580 has a clock speed of 772 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1002 MHz. It also features a 384-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 512 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380X, which features GPU clock speed of 970 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 380X 9519 points
GeForce GTX 580 4956 points
Difference: 4563 (92%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380X 190 Watts
GeForce GTX 580 244 Watts
Difference: 54 Watts (28%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 580 should theoretically be a bit better than the Radeon R9 380X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580 192384 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380X 182400 MB/sec
Difference: 9984 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X will be quite a bit (approximately 151%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X 124160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 49408 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 74752 (151%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 580 should be just a bit (about 19%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R9 380X, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580 37056 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X 31040 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6016 (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.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 580 Radeon R9 380X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2010 November 2015
Code Name GF110 Tonga XT
Memory 1536 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 772 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 4008 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 244 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 192384 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 49408 Mtexels/sec 124160 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 37056 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 512 2048
Texture Mapping Units 64 128
Render Output Units 48 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3000 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 580

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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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