NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 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 9 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +3%

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

800

64

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

RV770

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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