NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1206MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 590
1.244 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 470
+297%
4.94 TFLOPS
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 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
926 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
16
SM Count
-
512
Shading Units
2048
64
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
19.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
38.91 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.940 TFLOPS
1244 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.940 TFLOPS
155.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
308.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
120W
750 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF110
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GF110-351-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
3 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
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
