NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

AMD Radeon RX 560X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X 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 560X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X +109%

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon RX 560X

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 500

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1175 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

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 Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

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

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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