NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +2243%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070

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GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

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

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

512

184

TMUs

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

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GF110

AD104-250-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

295 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

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 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

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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