GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs GeForce GTX 580

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 May 2018
GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
GeForce GTX 580
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Nov 2010
GeForce GTX 580

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

169 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 580 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 580

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBGeForce GTX 580
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-301-A1)vsGF110 (GF110-375-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs520 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs3,000 million
Shaders768vs512
Compute Units6vs16
Core clock1392 MHzvs772 MHz
ROPs24vs48
TMUs48vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBGeForce GTX 580
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width96 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs1536 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBGeForce GTX 580
TDP75 wattsvs244 watts
Release Date21 May 2018vs9 Nov 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    36.43 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    24.70 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    72.86 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    49.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    84.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    2332.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 580
    1581.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better