GeForce GTX 580 vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Geforce GTX 760, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 980 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1502 MHz on this particular card. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 96 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
GeForce GTX 580		4956 points
	Difference: 967 (20%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
	Difference: 74 Watts (44%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 580 should be a small bit faster than the Geforce GTX 760 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 128 (0%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be quite a bit (more or less 90%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 44672 (90%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 580 is the winner, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5696 (18%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.