NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

392 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +763%

1.244 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

0.144 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

120

64

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

365W

TDP

35W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

RV630

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

RV630 PRO (215CDBBKA15FG)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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