NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 590 sales 24 March 2011 at a recommended price of $699. This is Fermi architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU) of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.71 GHz are supplied, and together with 768-bit (384-bit per GPU) memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 327.7 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 11" (280 mm) (27.9 cm). two 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 365 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 22.60 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Technologies Benchmarks Mining Gaming AMD equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of GeForce GTX 590's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

146

Perfomance to price

48.96

Architecture

Fermi

Code name

GF110

Type

Desktop

Release date

24 March 2011

Launch price (MSRP)

$699

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price

$184

of 4095.95 (Quadro P6000)

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 590's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 590's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2x 512

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

CUDA cores

1024

Core clock speed

1215 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

3,000 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Maximum GPU temperature

97 °C

Texture fill rate

77.7 billion/sec

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

2x 1,244.2 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 590's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Length

11" (280 mm) (27.9 cm)

Height

4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)

Supplementary power connectors

Two 8-pin

SLI options

Quad

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 590: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)

of 32

Memory bus width

768-bit (384-bit per GPU)

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

1707 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

327.7 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 590.

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

Display Connectors

Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

HDMI

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 590. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision

CUDA

SLI

Surround

DSR

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 590, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

11.0

OpenGL

4.2

of 4.6

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 590. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

22.69

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

9167

3DMark Vantage Performance

25720

Passmark

4211

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

6680

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 590. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

107 Mh/s

Game benchmarks (in FPS)

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 590 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.

Overall gaming performance

n/d

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

Civilization 5 (2010)

ultra / 1080p

StarCraft 2 (2010)

ultra / 1080p

112

Crysis - CPU Benchmark (2007)

ultra / 1080p

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

ultra / 1080p

World of Warcraft (2005)

high / 1024p

126

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 590 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

99.07 %

AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

98.98 %

AMD Radeon HD 7870

98.19 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 590 from AMD is Radeon E8950, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our rating.