NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +97%

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

-

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

1024

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

365W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF110

GTX 960 OEM

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

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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