NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 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 and 2 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
272 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 's Advantages
Lower TDP (289W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 590
+108%
1.244 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 295
0.596 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
854 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
448bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
30
512
Shading Units
240
64
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
19.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
38.91 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
46.08 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1244 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
596.2 GFLOPS
155.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
74.52 GFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
289W
750 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF110
GPU Name
GT200B
GF110-351-A1
GPU Variant
G200-401-B3
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
3 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
470 mm²
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
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
