AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
6.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 100 Watt
Around 12% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 7145 vs 6389

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2018 vs 28 June 2011
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 100 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	7145 vs 6389

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

2.1x more core clock speed: 620 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 349 vs 344
Around 58% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2074 vs 1311

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	620 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	349 vs 344
PassMark - G3D Mark	2074 vs 1311

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

344

349

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1311

2074

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

7145

6389

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
PassMark - G2D Mark	344	349
PassMark - G3D Mark	1311	2074
Geekbench - OpenCL	7145	6389
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	745
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		24.415
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		690.98
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.83
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		29.702
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		67.215
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3626
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3318
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3626
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3318

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Raven	GF114
Launch date	1 February 2018	28 June 2011
Place in performance rating	797	918
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	620 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	1,950 million
CUDA cores		384
Floating-point performance		952.3 gflops
Pipelines		384
Texture fill rate		39.7 billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	MXM-B (3.0)
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		2-way
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12 API
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1500 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI