NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI FireGL V3600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
392 additional rendering cores
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (73W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 590
+763%
1.244 TFLOPS
FireGL V3600
0.144 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Jun 2007
GeForce 500
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
854 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
16
SM Count
-
512
Shading Units
120
64
TMUs
8
48
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
19.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
38.91 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1244 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
144.0 GFLOPS
155.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
365W
TDP
73W
750 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF110
GPU Name
RV630
GF110-351-A1
GPU Variant
RV630 GL
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
