GeForce RTX 4080 vs GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock2505MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
9216 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (320W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4080
+3818%
48740
GeForce GTX 590
1244
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Mar 2011
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2205 MHz
Base Clock
-
2505 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
854 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
716.8GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/s
Render Config
76
SM Count
16
9728
Shading Units
512
304
TMUs
64
112
ROPs
48
304
Tensor Cores
-
76
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
280.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.46 GPixel/s
761.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
48.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
48.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
761.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
320W
TDP
365W
700 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD103
GPU Name
GF110
AD103-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF110-351-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
40 nm
45.9 billion
Transistors
3 billion
379 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
8.9
CUDA
2.0
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
