GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1076MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (250W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+387%
6060
GeForce GTX 590
1244
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Mar 2011
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
854 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
16
2816
Shading Units
512
176
TMUs
64
96
ROPs
48
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.46 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
365W
600 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
GF110
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
GF110-351-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
8 billion
Transistors
3 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
2.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
