NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 620 MHz

Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 620 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI

2x more pipelines: 768 vs 384
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Pipelines	768 vs 384
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Fermi
Code name	N12E-GS	N12E-GTX2
Launch date	6 January 2011	6 January 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	620 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	768
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	100 Watt
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	large	large
API support
DirectX	11	11
Memory
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0