NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 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 GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +216%

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

16

1152

Shading Units

512

72

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

365W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GF110

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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