NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 +234%

4.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 780

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

863 MHz

-

Boost Clock

902 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GK110

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

GK110-300-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

250W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-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

3.5

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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