NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI Radeon X1600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

ATI Radeon X1600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 365W)

Score

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon X1600

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

4

48

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

365W

TDP

27W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

RV516

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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