NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 590
1.244 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+1202%
16.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1410 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
38
512
Shading Units
4864
64
TMUs
152
48
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
19.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
38.91 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
1244 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
155.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
225W
750 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GF110
GPU Name
GA104
GF110-351-A1
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
3 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
