AMD Radeon R9 390 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

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AMD Radeon R9 390 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 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 R9 390 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390 +311%

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Mar 2011

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

512

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

160.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

GF110

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

365W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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