GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 365W)
GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)
176 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
907
GeForce GTX 590
+37%
1244
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Mar 2011
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
854 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/s
Render Config
7
SM Count
16
336
Shading Units
512
56
TMUs
64
24
ROPs
48
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
384 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.46 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
365W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
-
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
GF110
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
GF110-351-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
3 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
2.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
