AMD Radeon HD 6755G2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6755G2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD Radeon HD 6755G2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6755G2

Around 72% higher pipelines: 880 vs 512

Pipelines	880 vs 512

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6755G2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6755G2	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		42.212
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		914.386
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.262
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		43.391
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		99.735

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6755G2	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 2	Fermi 2.0
Launch date	14 June 2011	6 June 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	1154
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Code name		GF110
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Technical info
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	880	512
Core clock speed		772 MHz
Floating-point performance		1,581 gflops
Texture fill rate		49.41 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		244 Watt
Transistor count		3,000 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	medium sized
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	11	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Memory
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		1536 MB
Memory bandwidth		192.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		384 Bit
Memory clock speed		4008 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI