NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +472%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 500

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

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

49.44 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

175W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

12 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

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