ATI Radeon X550 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

VS

ATI Radeon X550 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT 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 GTX 590 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X550 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Mar 2011

Radeon R300

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Shading Units

512

4

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

1.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

365W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV410

GPU Name

GF110

-

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

R400

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.12 billion

Transistors

3 billion

156 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0b (9_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

-

Shader Model

5.1

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