Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages
Lower TDP (365W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+360%
5733
GeForce GTX 590
1244
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Mar 2011
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
854 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
384bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
2816
Shading Units
512
176
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.46 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
365W
900 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GF110
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
GF110-351-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
3 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
