NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 9 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +100%

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jun 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

1107 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

30

512

Shading Units

240

64

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

236W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GT200

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

576 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

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