NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 112.2GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +93%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GM206

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

120W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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