NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs Intel HD Graphics 2000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 and Intel HD Graphics 2000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
  • 85.3x more pipelines: 512 vs 6
  • 155x better floating-point performance: 1,581 gflops vs 10.2 gflops
Launch date 6 June 2011 vs 5 January 2011
Pipelines 512 vs 6
Floating-point performance 1,581 gflops vs 10.2 gflops

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 2000

  • Around 10% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 772 MHz
  • 17.2x more texture fill rate: 850 MTexel / s vs 49.41 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 772 MHz
Texture fill rate 850 MTexel / s vs 49.41 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 40 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 2000

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 Intel HD Graphics 2000
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 42.212
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 914.386
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.262
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 43.391
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 99.735
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1039
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1039
PassMark - G2D Mark 456
PassMark - G3D Mark 213

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 Intel HD Graphics 2000

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Generation 6.0
Code name GF110 Sandy Bridge GT1
Launch date 6 June 2011 5 January 2011
Launch price (MSRP) $499
Place in performance rating 1122 687
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 772 MHz 850 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,581 gflops 10.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 32 nm
Pipelines 512 6
Texture fill rate 49.41 GTexel / s 850 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 244 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 189 million
Boost clock speed 1150 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.6 3.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB
Memory bandwidth 192.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 1