GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
CORE STATE
GF110
VRAM
1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
365 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi 2.0
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2011
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 950
CORE STATE
GM206
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1188 MHz
TDP
90 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 590
GTX 950
Core Specs
Shading Units
512
768
+50.0%
Shaders
512
768
+50.0%
TMUs
64
48
-25.0%
ROPs
48
32
-33.3%
SM Count
16
—
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1024 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1188 MHz
GPU Clock
608 MHz
—
Shader Clock
1215 MHz
—
Memory Clock
854 MHz
3.4 Gbps effective
1653 MHz
6.6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
1536 MB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
1,536
2,048
+33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
164.0 GB/s
105.8 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
19.46 GPixel/s
38.02 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
57.02 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,244.2 GFLOPS
1.825 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
155.5 GFLOPS (1:8)
57.02 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
365 W
90 W
TDP (W)
365
90
-75.3%
Suggested PSU
750 W
250 W
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
GF110
GM206
Generation
GeForce 500
GeForce 900
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3,000 million
2,940 million
Die Size
520 mm²
228 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
5.8M / mm²
12.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.4
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
CUDA
2.0
5.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
279 mm
11 inches
202 mm
8 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
—
Outputs
3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
699 USD
159 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 400
GeForce 700
Successor
GeForce 600
GeForce 10