NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 365W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Nov 2005

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 7 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Shading Units

512

24

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

108W

TDP

365W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

-

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G70

GPU Name

GF110

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

Curie

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.302 billion

Transistors

3 billion

333 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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