NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 580M SLI sales 6 January 2011. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Fermi architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.

Power consumption is at 100 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 580M SLI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	417
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	6.03
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	N12E-GTX2
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	6 January 2011 (13 years ago)
Current price	$249	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 580M SLI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 580M SLI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	768	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	620 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 580M SLI's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

large

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 580M SLI: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Shared memory	-

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 580M SLI, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 580M SLI. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 580M SLI 9.96

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 580M SLI 25022

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 580M SLI 6106

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 580M SLI is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

900p	68
Full HD	89
1200p	81

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

14−16

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	14−16
Battlefield 5	30−35
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	27−30
Cyberpunk 2077	14−16
Far Cry 5	24−27
Far Cry New Dawn	24−27
Forza Horizon 4	35−40
Hitman 3	24−27
Horizon Zero Dawn	20−22
Red Dead Redemption 2	16−18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	21−24
Watch Dogs: Legion	18−20

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	14−16
Battlefield 5	30−35
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	27−30
Cyberpunk 2077	14−16
Far Cry 5	24−27
Far Cry New Dawn	24−27
Forza Horizon 4	35−40
Hitman 3	24−27
Horizon Zero Dawn	20−22
Metro Exodus	14−16
Red Dead Redemption 2	16−18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	21−24
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	20−22
Watch Dogs: Legion	18−20

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	14−16
Battlefield 5	30−35
Cyberpunk 2077	14−16
Far Cry 5	24−27
Far Cry New Dawn	24−27
Forza Horizon 4	35−40
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	20−22
Watch Dogs: Legion	18−20

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	14−16
Hitman 3	14−16
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16
Metro Exodus	8−9
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	9−10
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	6−7
Battlefield 5	16−18
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6
Far Cry 5	16−18
Far Cry New Dawn	16−18
Forza Horizon 4	18−20
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	9−10
Watch Dogs: Legion	5−6

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8
Hitman 3	9−10
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9
Metro Exodus	3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	5−6
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5
Battlefield 5	8−9
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2
Far Cry 5	8−9
Far Cry New Dawn	10−12
Forza Horizon 4	12−14
Watch Dogs: Legion	3−4

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 580M SLI's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.

Radeon RX 460 Mobile 101.31

Radeon HD 8970M 100.6

Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire 100.4

GeForce GTX 580M SLI 100

GeForce GTX 780M 99.8

Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G7 98.8

Radeon R9 M390 98.8

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 580M SLI is Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.