NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 +251%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2018

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

10

512

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

48

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

120W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GP106

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

3 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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