NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +221%

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce GTS 250

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

128

64

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.23 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.93 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

G92B

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

G92-428-B1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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