NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock888MHz

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM +64%

2.046 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

823 MHz

-

Boost Clock

888 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1152

64

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.31 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.25 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.046 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.25 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GK104

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-200-KD-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

130W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

2.0

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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