GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs GTX 580

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking406not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.09no data
Power efficiency3.37no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGF110GM206
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date9 November 2010 (14 years ago)26 November 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5121024
Core clock speed772 MHz1176 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1201 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)244 Wattno data
Maximum GPU temperature97 °Cno data
Texture fill rate49.4176.86
Floating-point processing power1.581 TFLOPS2.46 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs6464

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCI-E 2.0 x 16no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Height4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)no data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1536 MB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2004 MHz (4008 data rate)1753 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.4 GB/s112.2 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsMini HDMITwo Dual Link DVINo outputs
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIInternalno data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.24.6
OpenCL1.11.2
Vulkan+1.1.126
CUDA+5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 November 2010 26 November 2015
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

GTX 960 OEM has an age advantage of 5 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 580 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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