GeForce RTX 5090 vs GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 Advantages
Released 13 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock2407MHz
More VRAM (32GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
21248 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 590 Advantages
Lower TDP (365W vs 575W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5090
+8324%
104800
GeForce GTX 590
1244
Graphics Card
Jan 2025
Release Date
Mar 2011
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2017 MHz
Base Clock
-
2407 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
854 MHz
Memory
32GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
384bit
1.79TB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/s
Render Config
170
SM Count
16
21760
Shading Units
512
680
TMUs
64
176
ROPs
48
680
Tensor Cores
-
170
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
96 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
423.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.46 GPixel/s
1637 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
104.8 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
104.8 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
1.637 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
575W
TDP
365W
950 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GB202
GPU Name
GF110
GB202-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF110-351-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
40 nm
92.2 billion
Transistors
3 billion
750 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
1.4
Vulkan
N/A
12.0
CUDA
2.0
6.8
Shader Model
5.1
