NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

392 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +547%

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT X2

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

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Radeon HD 2600 XT X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jul 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

512

Shading Units

120

64

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

RV630

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

Unknown

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

4x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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