NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

9984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (350W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +2760%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

82

SM Count

16

10496

Shading Units

512

328

TMUs

64

112

ROPs

48

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

365W

750 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GF110

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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