GeForce RTX 2080 vs GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1710MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
2432 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (215W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
+709%
10070
GeForce GTX 590
1244
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Mar 2011
GeForce 20
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
-
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
854 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
16
2944
Shading Units
512
184
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
48
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.46 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
365W
550 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
GF110
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
GF110-351-A1
Turing
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
40 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
3 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
7.5
CUDA
2.0
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
