NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

21248 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (365W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +8718%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

170

SM Count

16

21760

Shading Units

512

680

TMUs

64

192

ROPs

48

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

88 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

365W

900 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

GF110

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

3 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

2.0

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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