AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 RX 560 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 365W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 +109%

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2011

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GF110

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

3 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

365W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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