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GeForce GTX 580 3GB vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 580 3GB makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 772 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1002 MHz on this specific card. It features 512 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which has GPU core speed of 975 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G 110 Watts
GeForce GTX 580 3GB 244 Watts
Difference: 134 Watts (122%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 580 3GB should be a small bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580 3GB 192384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G 179200 MB/sec
Difference: 13184 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is a lot (about 26%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G 62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB 49408 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12992 (26%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 580 3GB is a better choice, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580 3GB 37056 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G 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.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 580 3GB Radeon R7 370 4G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2010 June 2015
Code Name GF110 Trinidad
Memory 3072 MB 4096 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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can 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 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of 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.

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GeForce GTX 580 3GB

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Radeon R7 370 4G

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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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