NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 104.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X +58%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon R7 260X

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 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

896

64

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

115W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Bonaire

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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