NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI FirePro V9800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

ATI FirePro V9800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800 +118%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

FirePro V9800

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 500

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

1600

64

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

250W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Cypress

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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