NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 590
1.244 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+419%
6.463 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Dec 2018
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1506 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
15
512
Shading Units
1920
64
TMUs
120
48
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
19.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
38.91 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
1244 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
155.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
150W
750 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF110
GPU Name
GP104
GF110-351-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
16 nm
3 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.0
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
