Graphics card overview

GeForce GTX 580

Nvidia

GeForce GTX 580

1536 Mb GDDR5 Released 9 Nov 2010 DESKTOP

Core configuration

GPU	GF110
Architecture	Nvidia_Fermi
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs	512 : 64 : 48
Raytracing Cores	none
Performance	1581.00 GFLOPs

Memory configuration

Memory Size	1536 Mb
Memory Bus Width	384 bit
Memory Speed	1002 MHz 4008 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth	192.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The GeForce GTX 580 is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 9 Nov 2010. The graphics card houses the GF110 die, based on the Nvidia_Fermi architecture which packs 3,000 million transistors on a 40 nm, 520 mm² die.

GeForce GTX 580 pros and cons

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Specifications

Compared to similar performing cards

	GeForce GTX 580	GeForce GTX 750 Ti Compare	Radeon R7 265 Compare	Radeon R9 270 Compare	Radeon R9 270X Compare
Shader units	512	640	1024	1280	1280
ROPs	48	16	32	32	32
Graphics processor	GF110	GM107	Pitcairn	Curacao	Curacao
Process size	40 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Memory	1536 Mb GDDR5 (1002 MHz 4008 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1350 MHz 5400 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1400 MHz 5600 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1400 MHz 5600 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1400 MHz 5600 MHz effective)
Memory bus width	384 bit	128 bit	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit
Memory bandwidth	192.00 Gb/s	86.40 Gb/s	179.20 Gb/s	179.00 Gb/s	179.00 Gb/s
Release date	9 Nov 2010	18 Feb 2014	13 Feb 2014	13 Nov 2013	8 Oct 2013