NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

  • Around 63% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 244 Watt
  • Around 70% higher memory clock speed: 3400 MHz vs 2004 MHz (4008 data rate)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 244 Watt
Memory clock speed 3400 MHz vs 2004 MHz (4008 data rate)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

  • 2.4x more core clock speed: 1544 MHz vs 650 MHz
Core clock speed 1544 MHz vs 650 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
PassMark - G3D Mark 4616
PassMark - G2D Mark 478
Geekbench - OpenCL 15070
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)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Fermi 2.0
Code name GF114 GF110
Launch date 15 November 2010 9 November 2010
Place in performance rating not rated 660
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $499
Price now $289.88
Value for money (0-100) 19.21

Technical info

Core clock speed 650 MHz 1544 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 244 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 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

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 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 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 210 mm 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin One 6-pin and One 8-pin
Bus support PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
SLI options 3-way

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.2

Memory

Memory clock speed 3400 MHz 2004 MHz (4008 data rate)
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB
Memory bandwidth 192.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit
Memory type GDDR5

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround

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