AMD Caicos
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
AMD Caicos
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
431
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Value for money (0-100)
10.47
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Fermi
Caicos
Code name
GF114
Desktop
Type
Laptop
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Release date
28 June 2011 (10 years ago)
$10.38
Price now
$170
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Value for money
2.60
Caicos
GPU code name
N12E-GTX2
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

160
Pipelines
384
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Core clock speed
620 MHz
370 million
Transistor count
1,950 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
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Texture fill rate
39.7 billion/sec
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Floating-point performance
952.3 gflops
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CUDA cores
384
160
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
370 million
Number of transistors
1,950 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
100 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M.

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Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Laptop size
large
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SLI options
+
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Bus support
PCI-E 2.0

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
2 MB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
1500 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
96.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
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Technologies

The difference between AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M is the additional functionality.

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3D Vision
+
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CUDA
+
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Optimus
+
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3D Gaming
+
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3D Blu-Ray
+
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DirectX 11
DirectX 11

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 API
4.4
OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
N/A
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Shader Model
5.1
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OpenCL
1.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Caicos or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Caicos
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Caicos
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Caicos
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Caicos
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Caicos
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Caicos

Cheaper ($10.38 vs $170)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

11.55% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (384 vs 160)

So, AMD Caicos or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M .

AMD Caicos versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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