GeForce GTX 580 vs Radeon HD 6970
Summary
GeForce GTX 580
109%
Radeon HD 6970
100%
Relative performance
GeForce GTX 580
125%
Radeon HD 6970
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 580 |
| 25% higher gaming performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6970 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 580
The GeForce GTX 580 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (4 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 580 | | Radeon HD 6970 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF110 (GF110-375-A1) | vs | Cayman (Cayman XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 520 mm² | vs | 389 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,000 million | vs | 2,640 million |
| Shaders | 512 | vs | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 16 | vs | 24 |
| Core clock | 772 MHz | vs | 880 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 64 | vs | 96 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 580 | | Radeon HD 6970 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 384 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective | vs | 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1536 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 580 | | Radeon HD 6970 | |
|---|
| TDP | 244 watts | vs | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 9 Nov 2010 | vs | 14 Dec 2010 |
GeForce GTX 580
24.70 GP/s
Radeon HD 6970
28.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 580
49.40 GT/s
Radeon HD 6970
84.50 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 580
192.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 6970
176.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 580
1581.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6970
2703.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 580
6600
Radeon HD 6970
6000
Points (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA
GeForce GTX 580
29
Radeon HD 6970
24
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA
GeForce GTX 580
47
Radeon HD 6970
38
FPS (higher is better)
DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA
GeForce GTX 580
27
Radeon HD 6970
23
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal
GeForce GTX 580
34
Radeon HD 6970
24
FPS (higher is better)