NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +352%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

512

Shading Units

2816

64

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

580W

750 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

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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