AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +204%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Mar 2011

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF110

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

365W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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