NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 14% higher core clock speed: 772 MHz vs 675 MHz
  • Around 31% higher texture fill rate: 49.41 GTexel / s vs 37.8 GTexel / s
  • 4.6x more pipelines: 512 vs 112
  • 4.4x better floating-point performance: 1,581 gflops vs 362.9 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
  • Around 82% higher memory clock speed: 4008 MHz vs 2200 MHz
Launch date 6 June 2011 vs 1 July 2009
Core clock speed 772 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate 49.41 GTexel / s vs 37.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 512 vs 112
Floating-point performance 1,581 gflops vs 362.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 1536 MB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 4008 MHz vs 2200 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 244 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 244 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM
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
PassMark - G2D Mark 134
PassMark - G3D Mark 556
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Tesla
Code name GF110 G92B
Launch date 6 June 2011 1 July 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $499
Place in performance rating 1155 1158
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 772 MHz 675 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,581 gflops 362.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 512 112
Texture fill rate 49.41 GTexel / s 37.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 244 Watt 120 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 754 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 267 mm 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.4 GB / s 70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4008 MHz 2200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3