NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M and NVIDIA GeForce 9100 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

NVIDIA GeForce 9100

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 24% higher core clock speed: 620 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
25.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2074 vs 82
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 349 vs 345
4.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3318 vs 795
4.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3318 vs 795

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 June 2011 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	620 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2074 vs 82
PassMark - G2D Mark	349 vs 345
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3318 vs 795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3318 vs 795

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9100

2.5x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2074

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

349

345

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3318

795

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3318

795

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M	NVIDIA GeForce 9100
PassMark - G3D Mark	2074	82
PassMark - G2D Mark	349	345
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	795
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3626
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3318	795

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M	NVIDIA GeForce 9100
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GF114	C78
Launch date	28 June 2011	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	927	930
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	620 MHz	500 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	40 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCI
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.0
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
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