NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
5376 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+2243%
29.15 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 590
1.244 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Mar 2011
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
-
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
854 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
16
5888
Shading Units
512
184
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
48
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
36 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.46 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
365W
550 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GF110
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
GF110-351-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
40 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
3 billion
294 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
8.9
CUDA
2.0
6.8
Shader Model
5.1
