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).

 

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
82
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 926 929
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