GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X Advantages
Released 11 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+1202%
16200
GeForce GTX 590
1244
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Mar 2011
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
854 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/s
Render Config
38
SM Count
16
4864
Shading Units
512
152
TMUs
64
80
ROPs
48
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.46 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
365W
550 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GF110
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
GF110-351-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
3 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
2.0
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
