GeForce GTX 580 vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Geforce GTX 760, which features a core clock speed of 980 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1502 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 1152 SPUs, 96 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

Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
GeForce GTX 580		4956 points
	Difference: 967 (20%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
	Difference: 74 Watts (44%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 580 should perform a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 760 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 128 (0%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is a lot (more or less 90%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 44672 (90%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 580 is the winner, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5696 (18%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could 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 Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.