GeForce GTX 580M vs Radeon HD 8570M
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 580M |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8570M |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 580M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 580M | | Radeon HD 8570M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF114 (N12E-GTX2-A1) | vs | Sun (Sun PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 332 mm² | vs | 77 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,950 million | vs | 1,040 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 320 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 620 MHz | vs | 750 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 64 | vs | 20 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 580M | | Radeon HD 8570M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 750 MHz
3000 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 580M | | Radeon HD 8570M | |
|---|
| TDP | 100 watts | vs | 0 watts |
| Release Date | 28 Jun 2011 | vs | 1 Mar 2013 |
GeForce GTX 580M
9.92 GP/s
Radeon HD 8570M
6.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 580M
39.70 GT/s
Radeon HD 8570M
16.50 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 580M
96.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 8570M
16.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 580M
952.30 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 8570M
528.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better