AMD Radeon R7 M270DX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 M270DX and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon R7 M270DX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M270DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	11 June 2014 vs 9 November 2010
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Around 72% higher core clock speed: 1544 MHz vs 900 MHz
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 486 vs 233
4.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4622 vs 962

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1544 MHz vs 900 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	486 vs 233
PassMark - G3D Mark	4622 vs 962

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 M270DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

233

486

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

962

4622

Name	AMD Radeon R7 M270DX	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
PassMark - G2D Mark	233	486
PassMark - G3D Mark	962	4622
Geekbench - OpenCL		15124
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		40.048
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		872.651
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		32.378
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		132.363
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5953
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5953
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		809

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 M270DX	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Topaz	GF110
Launch date	11 June 2014	9 November 2010
Place in performance rating	645	647
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Price now		$289.88
Value for money (0-100)		19.21
Technical info
Boost clock speed	940 MHz
Core clock speed	900 MHz	1544 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Transistor count	3,100 million	3,000 million
CUDA cores		512
Floating-point performance		1,581.1 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		97 °C
Pipelines		512
Texture fill rate		49.4 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		244 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI, 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height		4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length		10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options		3-way
Supplementary power connectors		One 6-pin and One 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1536 MB
Memory bandwidth		192.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		384 Bit
Memory clock speed		2004 MHz (4008 data rate)
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround