NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 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 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (180W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
+613%
8.873 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 590
1.244 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Mar 2011
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
-
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1376 MHz
Memory Clock
854 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
352.3GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
20
SM Count
16
2560
Shading Units
512
160
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.46 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
365W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GF110
GP104-410-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
