NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6970M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6970M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M and AMD Radeon HD 6970M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

431
Place in performance rating
442
10.47
Value for money (0-100)
12.02
Fermi
Architecture
Terascale 2
GF114
Code name
Blackcomb
Laptop
Type
Laptop
28 June 2011 (10 years ago)
Release date
6 January 2011 (10 years ago)
$170
Price now
$257
2.60
Value for money
1.57
N12E-GTX2
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M and AMD Radeon HD 6970M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
960
620 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
1,950 million
Transistor count
1,700 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
100 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
39.7 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
32.64
952.3 gflops
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
384
CUDA cores
no data
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
1,950 million
Number of transistors
1,700 million
100 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
75 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M and AMD Radeon HD 6970M.

MXM-B (3.0)
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
None
Supplementary power connectors
None
large
Laptop size
large
+
SLI options
no data
PCI-E 2.0
Bus support
no data

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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M and AMD Radeon HD 6970M can be seen in this section.

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

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M and AMD Radeon HD 6970M, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M and AMD Radeon HD 6970M is the additional functionality.

+
3D Vision
no data
+
CUDA
no data
+
Optimus
no data
+
3D Gaming
no data
+
3D Blu-Ray
no data
DirectX 11
DirectX 11
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M and AMD Radeon HD 6970M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 API
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.5
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
Vulkan
no data
5.1
Shader Model
no data
1.1
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M and AMD Radeon HD 6970M 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M or AMD Radeon HD 6970M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
AMD Radeon HD 6970M
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
AMD Radeon HD 6970M
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
AMD Radeon HD 6970M
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
AMD Radeon HD 6970M
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
AMD Radeon HD 6970M
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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

0.040000000000001% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($170 vs $257)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6970M

More pipelines (960 vs 384)

Less power consumption (75 Watt vs 100 Watt)

More memory bandwidth (115.2 GB/s vs 96.0 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M or AMD Radeon HD 6970M?

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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M versus AMD Radeon HD 6970M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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