NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +118%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

512

Shading Units

1600

64

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Cypress

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

175W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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