NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

On the Atlas performance index the AMD Radeon HD 7970 is about 56% faster. They launched 1 year apart.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 58045
AMD Radeon HD 797070
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580AMD Radeon HD 7970
Released 2010 2011
Family Fermi Southern Islands
Video memory 1.5 GB 3 GB
Clock 772 MHz 925 MHz
Process 40 nm 28 nm
Power (TDP) 244 W 250 W
Launch price $499 $549
Performance index 45 70

Green marks the better value in each row. Less power, a smaller process and a lower price count as better.

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