NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI Radeon X550 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

ATI Radeon X550 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT 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 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon X550 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/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

1.600 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.600 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

365W

TDP

Unknown

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

RV410

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

R400

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.12 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

156 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

-

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