NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 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 late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (197W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +223%

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Mar 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

16

512

Shading Units

128

64

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

365W

TDP

197W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

G92

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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