NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon R7 240

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

AMD Radeon R7 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 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 28.80GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +149%

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

365W

TDP

30W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Oland

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD FirePro S7150

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon HD 6390

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 560DX

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100

Related News

1

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

2

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

3

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

4

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

5

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

6

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

7

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

8

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

9

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

10

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!