NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M vs AMD Radeon HD 6870M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
AMD Radeon HD 6870M
384 Shaders
2GB GDDR5
620MHz
800 Shaders
1GB GDDR5
675MHz
Peak AI Performance
0.95 TOPS
INT32
Peak AI Performance
1.08 TFLOPS
FP32
FP32
950 GFLOPS
FP32
1.08 TFLOPS
Form Factor
Soldered
Form Factor
Soldered
TDP
100W
TDP
50W

Peak AI Performance

  • 12% slower vs Radeon HD 6870M
  • 14% faster vs GeForce GTX 580M
GeForce GTX 580M - 0.95 TOPS INT32
x1
Radeon HD 6870M - 1.08 TFLOPS FP32
x1.14

FP32

  • 12% slower vs Radeon HD 6870M
  • 14% faster vs GeForce GTX 580M
GeForce GTX 580M - 950 GFLOPS FP32
x1
Radeon HD 6870M - 1.08 TFLOPS FP32
x1.14
  • 50% faster vs Radeon HD 6870M
  • 33% slower vs GeForce GTX 580M
GeForce GTX 580M - 96GB/s
x1.5
Radeon HD 6870M - 64GB/s
x1
  • 100% higher vs Radeon HD 6870M
  • 50% lower vs GeForce GTX 580M
GeForce GTX 580M - 100W
x2
Radeon HD 6870M - 50W
x1
Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Manufacturer
AMD
Chip Designer
NVIDIA
Chip Designer
AMD
Architecture
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Family
GeForce 500
Family
Radeon HD 6000
Codename
NVCE
GF114
-
-
Codename
Juniper
RV840
Variant
Granville XT
Market Segment
Laptop
Market Segment
Laptop
Release Date
6/28/2011
Release Date
1/4/2011
Foundry
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
Fabrication Node
40nm
Fabrication Node
40nm
Die Size
1950 mm²
Die Size
166 mm²
Transistor Count
332 Million
Transistor Count
1 Billion
Transistor Density
0.17M/mm²
Transistor Density
6.27M/mm²
Form
Soldered
Form
Soldered
Shading Units
384 Shaders
Shading Units
800 Shaders
Texture Mapping Units
64 TMUs
Texture Mapping Units
40 TMUs
Render Output Units
32 ROPs
Render Output Units
16 ROPs
Streaming Multiprocessors
8 SMs
-
-
-
-
Compute Units
10 CUs
1240MHz Shader
620MHz
-
675MHz
Peak AI Performance
0.95 TOPS
INT32
Peak AI Performance
1.08 TFLOPS
FP32
FP32
950 GFLOPS
FP32
1.08 TFLOPS
FP64
80 GFLOPS
-
-
INT32
0.95 TOPS
-
-
Pixel Fillrate
19.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Fillrate
10.8 GPixel/s
Texture Fillrate
39.68 GTexel/s
Texture Fillrate
27 GTexel/s
L1
64KB/SM
-
L1
-
8KB/CU
L2
512KB Shared
L2
256KB Shared
2GB
GDDR5
1GB
GDDR5
Bus Width
256Bit
Bus Width
128Bit
Clock
750MHz
Transfer Rate
3GT/s
Bandwidth
96GB/s
Clock
1000MHz
Transfer Rate
4GT/s
Bandwidth
64GB/s
TDP
100W
TDP
50W
Max Resolution
2560x1600
Max Resolution
2560x1600
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Multi Monitor Support
2
Multi Monitor Support
2
No Encoders
No Encoders
No Decoders
Model
UVD 2.2
-
-
Codec
VC-1
AVC (H.264)
Direct X
12
Direct 3D
11_0
Direct X
11
Direct 3D
11_0
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
OpenCL
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
CUDA
2.1
-
-
PureVideo HD
VP4
VDPAU
Feature Set C
Shader Model
5.0
-
-
GFX
4
-
-
-
-
Not a Card
Not a Card
PCIe Version
2.0
PCIe Lanes
16
PCIe Version
2.1
PCIe Lanes
16
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