GMA 900 vs GeForce GTX 580M SLI

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking509not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.10no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Generation 3.0 (2005)
GPU code nameN12E-GTX2Alviso
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 January 2011 (14 years ago)2005 (20 years ago)

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 cores768no data
Core clock speed620 MHz333 MHz
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data1.332
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataFSB

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1500 MHzSystem Shared
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

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

DirectX119.0c
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data1.4
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

GTX 580M SLI has a 225% more advanced lithography process.

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