Radeon Vega 8 Efficient vs GeForce GTX 580M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking613not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.69no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGF114Raven
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date28 June 2011 (13 years ago)23 April 2018 (6 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 cores384512
Core clock speed620 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate39.6835.20
Floating-point processing power0.9523 TFLOPS1.126 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs6432

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
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)IGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth96.0 GB/sno data
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 outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray+-
3D Gaming+-
Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 API12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 June 2011 23 April 2018
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 35 Watt

Vega 8 Efficient has an age advantage of 6 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 185.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 580M and Radeon Vega 8 Efficient. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 580M is a notebook card while Radeon Vega 8 Efficient is a desktop one.


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