AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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 R5 230 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
12.8x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 244 Watt

Launch date	21 December 2013 vs 6 June 2011
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 244 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Around 24% higher core clock speed: 772 MHz vs 625 MHz
9.9x more texture fill rate: 49.41 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
3.2x more pipelines: 512 vs 160
7.9x better floating-point performance: 1,581 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
3x more memory clock speed: 4008 MHz vs 1334 MHz

Core clock speed	772 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	49.41 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 160
Floating-point performance	1,581 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	4008 MHz vs 1334 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Name	AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1681
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1681
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3290
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3290
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 R5 230 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Caicos	GF110
Launch date	21 December 2013	6 June 2011
Place in performance rating	1151	1154
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	772 MHz
Floating-point performance	200.0 gflops	1,581 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	160	512
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	49.41 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	244 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	3,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	10.67 GB / s	192.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1334 MHz	4008 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5