NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 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 2 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 896GB)

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

272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 's Advantages

Lower TDP (289W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +108%

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

0.596 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 295

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2009

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

30

512

Shading Units

240

64

TMUs

80

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

46.08 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

596.2 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

289W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

GT200B

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

G200-401-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

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