GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

CORE STATE GF110

VRAM 1536 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 365 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi 2.0

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2011

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

12,830

28,528

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

31,001

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 590

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

512

1,664 +225.0%

Shaders

512

1,664 +225.0%

TMUs

64

104 +62.5%

ROPs

48

56 +16.7%

SM Count

16

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1178 MHz

GPU Clock

608 MHz

—

Shader Clock

1215 MHz

—

Memory Clock

854 MHz 3.4 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1536 MB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,536

4,096 +166.7%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

384 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

164.0 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1,244.2 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.5 GFLOPS (1:8)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

365 W

148 W

TDP (W)

365

148 -59.5%

Suggested PSU

750 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GF110

GM204

Generation

GeForce 500

GeForce 900

Process Size

40 nm

28 nm

Transistors

3,000 million

5,200 million

Die Size

520 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

5.8M / mm²

13.1M / 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

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

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

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 400

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 600

GeForce 10

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