NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (365W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +117%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 500

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

365W

TDP

375W

750 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Antilles

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

389 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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