NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 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 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +190%

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Apr 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.70 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.63 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

140W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

RV670

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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