NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 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 1GB)

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

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon RX 470

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

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

512

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

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

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 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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