NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +215%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

512

104

TMUs

64

56

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF110

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

365W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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