NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 460

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 AMD Radeon RX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 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 112.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460 +72%

2.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon RX 460

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 500

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

512

Shading Units

896

64

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

-

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

19.20 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.150 TFLOPS

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.150 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

134.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Baffin

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin PRO

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

3 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

75W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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