NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +1202%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Dec 2020

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

38

512

Shading Units

4864

64

TMUs

152

48

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

200W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GA104

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-200-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

392 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

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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