NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 91.87GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (150W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +46%

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 SE

0.848 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

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GeForce GTX 560 SE

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Feb 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

957 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

91.87GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

288

64

TMUs

48

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.832 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.33 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

847.9 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.66 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GF114

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

GF114-200-KB-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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