Video Card Question

[FireFox]

Hey,

 

I've been told that the GeForce GTX 580 is a little more powerful than my GeForce GTX 660, looking at GPU-Z my GTX 660 can process 80.5 GTexel/s and the GTX 580 processes around 53 GTexel/s but looking at the pixel fillrate my GTX 660 processes 24.1 GPixel/s but the GTX 580 is a lot higher at around 40 GPixel/s. I know it'll vary from clockspeed to clockspeed but I'm curious.

 

My question is basically what is more important, the texture fillrate or the pixel fillrate because my video card has a higher GTexel/s than the GTX 580 but the GTX 580 has a higher GPixel/s so I'm getting a little confused.

 

Does anyone have an idea?

[RelentlessAF]

As far as your specific question I hardly know the answer so I won't pretend I do. I do however, have a question for you, are you looking to get a 580 as a replacement? Or are you just curious as to what makes it more powerful?

[FireFox]

As far as your specific question I hardly know the answer so I won't pretend I do. I do however, have a question for you, are you looking to get a 580 as a replacement? Or are you just curious as to what makes it more powerful?

 

I want to get a GTX 580 purely because I like video cards and kind of want to collect them (especially old ones like GeForce4 and up). My question based on curiosity is to what makes it more powerful, also the GFLOPS of the GTX 580 is higher but not by a huge margin.

[RelentlessAF]

I want to get a GTX 580 purely because I like video cards and kind of want to collect them (especially old ones like GeForce4 and up). My question based on curiosity is to what makes it more powerful, also the GFLOPS of the GTX 580 is higher but not by a huge margin.

Ah that's cool. I'm note entirely sure what makes it more powerful I do know they have different architectures and that changes the efficiency of the GPU.

[FireFox]

Ah that's cool. I'm note entirely sure what makes it more powerful I do know they have different architectures and that changes the efficiency of the GPU.

 

Ahh no worries mate, atleast you're not affaid to say that you are not sure

[Luckris]

for some reason 580 was the best compute card. no idea why but they went away from that... Was a random thing they did. no idea with the voltages and stuff behind it, but it was like a once a time thing. 

 

Kinda like gtx titan. but the 700 series is a mess. 

[Tacitus]

I want to get a GTX 580 purely because I like video cards and kind of want to collect them (especially old ones like GeForce4 and up). My question based on curiosity is to what makes it more powerful, also the GFLOPS of the GTX 580 is higher but not by a huge margin.

 

 

I'll join the crew who do not know, but are you looking to buy one purely to collect, or also to use?

 

Aria are selling manufactured GTX 580's for £90 at the moment, a member of this forum bought a 570 Twin Frozr that turned out to be damaged from them, then they sent him a new Windforce 570. The branding seems to be pot luck; you're all but guaranteed a decent card in a very good condition, however.

[FireFox]

I'll join the crew who do not know, but are you looking to buy one purely to collect, or also to use?

 

Aria are selling manufactured GTX 580's for £90 at the moment, a member of this forum bought a 570 Twin Frozr that turned out to be damaged from them, then they sent him a new Windforce 570. The branding seems to be pot luck; you're all but guaranteed a decent card in a very good condition, however.

 

I may use it but not really sure and I won't be buying one for a while though, I need RAM for my computer.