NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
5376 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 590
1.244 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+2243%
29.15 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Aug 2024
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1920 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
854 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
46
512
Shading Units
5888
64
TMUs
184
48
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
36 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
19.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
38.91 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
1244 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
155.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
200W
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 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GF110
GPU Name
AD104
GF110-351-A1
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
5 nm
3 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
294 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
8.9
5.1
Shader Model
6.8
