ATI Rage 128 Ultra vs GeForce GTX 580M SLI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking431not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.56no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Rage 4 (1998−1999)
GPU code nameN12E-GTX2Rage 4
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date6 January 2011 (13 years ago)1 August 1999 (25 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores768no data
Core clock speed620 MHz119 MHz
Number of transistorsno data8 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data0.24
ROPsno data2
TMUsno data2

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataAGP 4x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5SDR
Maximum RAM amountno data32 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz119 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data952.0 MB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x VGA

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX116.0
OpenGLno data1.2
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2011 1 August 1999
Chip lithography 40 nm 250 nm

GTX 580M SLI has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 525% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 580M SLI and Rage 128 Ultra. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 580M SLI is a notebook card while Rage 128 Ultra is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI
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