AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +5933%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120 OEM

0.118 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce GT 120 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Mar 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

504 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.13GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

2304

Shading Units

32

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.904 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.81 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

117.5 GFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

G96C

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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