NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 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 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 365W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590 +160%

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

16

192

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

64

28

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

365W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

GF110

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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