GeForce GTX 580 vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare those specs to the Geforce GTX 760, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 980 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1502 MHz on this model. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 96 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 speaking, the GeForce GTX 580 is 0% quicker than the Geforce GTX 760 overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be 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

The GeForce GTX 580 is a little bit (about 18%) more effective at AA than the Geforce GTX 760, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 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 Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.