NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +160%

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

24

512

Shading Units

192

64

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

28

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

182W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GT200B

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

470 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

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI Radeon X1550

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon R7 360

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon HD 6230

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU