NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD FirePro RG220

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

AMD FirePro RG220

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

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

432 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro RG220 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +1455%

1.244 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

FirePro RG220

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

May 2010

GeForce 500

Generation

FirePro RG

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

1

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

80

64

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

365W

TDP

35W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DMS-59

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

M93

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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