Radeon HD 5770 vs GeForce GTX 580

Radeon HD 5770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2009
Radeon HD 5770
GeForce GTX 580
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Nov 2010
GeForce GTX 580

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5770
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 580
    237%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5770

136 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 580 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 580

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 137% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 580

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 580

The GeForce GTX 580 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5770GeForce GTX 580
GPU NameJuniper (Juniper XT)vsGF110 (GF110-375-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size166 mm²vs520 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs3,000 million
Shaders800vs512
Compute Units10vs16
Core clock850 MHzvs772 MHz
ROPs16vs48
TMUs40vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5770GeForce GTX 580
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1536 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5770GeForce GTX 580
TDP108 wattsvs244 watts
Release Date13 Oct 2009vs9 Nov 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5770
    13.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    24.70 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5770
    34.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    49.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5770
    76.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 580
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5770
    1360.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 580
    1581.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5770
    2780
  • GeForce GTX 580
    6600

Points (higher is better)