NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 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 - T-Rex (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 63% higher texture fill rate: 80.53 GTexel / s vs 49.41 GTexel / s
2.6x more pipelines: 1344 vs 512
Around 22% better floating-point performance: 1,933 gflops vs 1,581 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.4x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 244 Watt
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 4008 MHz

Launch date	1 April 2013 vs 6 June 2011
Texture fill rate	80.53 GTexel / s vs 49.41 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1344 vs 512
Floating-point performance	1,933 gflops vs 1,581 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 244 Watt
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 4008 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 772 MHz vs 719 MHz
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
Around 86% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 42.212 vs 22.656
2.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 5.262 vs 2.103

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	772 MHz vs 719 MHz
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	42.212 vs 22.656
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.262 vs 2.103

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

22.656

42.212

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2.103

5.262

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	22.656	42.212
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.103	5.262
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1543
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	26.1
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	6514
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	105.1
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	6700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	119.6
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		914.386
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		43.391
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		99.735

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GK104	GF110
Launch date	1 April 2013	6 June 2011
Place in performance rating	1154	1157
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Technical info
Core clock speed	719 MHz	772 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,933 gflops	1,581 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1344	512
Texture fill rate	80.53 GTexel / s	49.41 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	244 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	3,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB / s	192.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	4008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5