NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI Radeon HD 5670

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

ATI Radeon HD 5670

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5670 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

112 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5670 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +100%

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5670

0.62 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon HD 5670

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2010

GeForce 500

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

400

64

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

365W

TDP

64W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Redwood

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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