AMD Radeon R9 A375 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 A375 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 R9 A375

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 A375

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 7 month(s) later
749x more texture fill rate: 37.00 GTexel/s vs 49.4 billion / sec
Around 25% higher pipelines: 640 vs 512
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1536 MB

Launch date	2015 vs 9 November 2010
Texture fill rate	37.00 GTexel/s vs 49.4 billion / sec
Pipelines	640 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1536 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Around 72% higher core clock speed: 1544 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 78% higher memory clock speed: 2004 MHz (4008 data rate) vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 490 vs 232
4.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4630 vs 1024

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1544 MHz vs 900 MHz
Memory clock speed	2004 MHz (4008 data rate) vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	490 vs 232
PassMark - G3D Mark	4630 vs 1024

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 A375
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

232

490

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1024

4630

Name	AMD Radeon R9 A375	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
PassMark - G2D Mark	232	490
PassMark - G3D Mark	1024	4630
Geekbench - OpenCL		15182
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 R9 A375	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Venus	GF110
Launch date	2015	9 November 2010
Place in performance rating	664	620
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Price now		$289.88
Value for money (0-100)		19.21
Technical info
Boost clock speed	925 MHz
Compute units	10
Core clock speed	900 MHz	1544 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1184 GFLOPS
Pipelines	640	512
Pixel fill rate	14.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.00 GTexel/s	49.4 billion / sec
Transistor count	1500 million	3,000 million
CUDA cores		512
Floating-point performance		1,581.1 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		97 °C
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	PCIe 3.0 x16	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	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.2
Shader Model	5.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	192.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	2004 MHz (4008 data rate)
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround