NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (184W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +477%

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Dec 2021

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1470 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

34

512

Shading Units

2176

64

TMUs

136

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

184W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

TU106

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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