NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1190MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 365W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power +46%

1.828 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1026 MHz

Base Clock

-

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

768

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

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1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

365W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF110

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

3 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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