NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +215%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1664

64

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GM204

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

148W

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

2x 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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