NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M vs ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M and ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP 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 Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 620 MHz vs 300 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
76.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2074 vs 27
Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 349 vs 191

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 June 2011 vs 28 February 2007
Core clock speed	620 MHz vs 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2074 vs 27
PassMark - G2D Mark	349 vs 191

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2074

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

349

191

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M	ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	2074	27
PassMark - G2D Mark	349	191
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 Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	R400
Code name	GF114	RS690
Launch date	28 June 2011	28 February 2007
Place in performance rating	921	912
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	620 MHz	300 MHz
CUDA cores	384
Floating-point performance	952.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	39.7 billion / sec
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	None
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0b
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI