NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM +105%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

512

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

175W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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