GeForce GTX 580 vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 760, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 980 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1502 MHz on this card. It features 1152 SPUs along with 96 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

In theory, 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 (about 90%) better at texture 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 a better choice, not by a very large margin though. (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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.