NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 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 44.16GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 365W)

Score

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

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

690 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

44.16GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

12

48

ROPs

12

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.900 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.900 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

365W

TDP

130W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

RV570

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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