GeForce GTX 580 vs Radeon R9 390

GeForce GTX 580
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Nov 2010
GeForce GTX 580
Radeon R9 390
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 390

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 580
    100%
  • Radeon R9 390
    270%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 390

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 170% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 390

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 390

The Radeon R9 390 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 580Radeon R9 390
GPU NameGF110 (GF110-375-A1)vsGrenada (Grenada PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size520 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders512vs2560
Compute Units16vs40
Core clock772 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs48vs64
TMUs64vs160

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 580Radeon R9 390
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs512 bit
Memory Speed1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 580Radeon R9 390
TDP244 wattsvs275 watts
Release Date9 Nov 2010vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 580
    24.70 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    64.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 580
    49.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    160.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 580
    192.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 580
    1581.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 390
    5120.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 580
    6600
  • Radeon R9 390
    17820

Points (higher is better)