NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M and ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 77% higher core clock speed: 620 MHz vs 350 MHz
14.2x more texture fill rate: 39.7 billion / sec vs 2.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 660 MHz
34.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2074 vs 60
Around 85% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 349 vs 189

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 June 2011 vs 1 March 2005
Core clock speed	620 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.7 billion / sec vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz vs 660 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2074 vs 60
PassMark - G2D Mark	349 vs 189

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2074

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

349

189

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M	ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL
PassMark - G3D Mark	2074	60
PassMark - G2D Mark	349	189
Geekbench - OpenCL	6389
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)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M	ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	R400
Code name	GF114	M26
Launch date	28 June 2011	1 March 2005
Place in performance rating	921	923
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	620 MHz	350 MHz
CUDA cores	384
Floating-point performance	952.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	39.7 billion / sec	2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	120 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0b
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	96.0 GB / s	10.56 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	660 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI