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 2.0 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 19.71 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
AMD equivalent
Advices and comments
General info
Of GeForce GTX 590's architecture, market type and release date.
Value for money (0-100)
33.80
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Code name
GF110
Type
Desktop
Release date
24 March 2011
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.
CUDA cores
1024
Transistor count
3,000 million
of 21100
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
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
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
Memory clock speed
1707 MHz
of 14000
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
12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.2
of 4.6
Benchmark 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
19.71
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
9167
3DMark Vantage Performance
25720
Passmark
4212
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
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 590 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 590 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 590 from AMD is Radeon R9 270, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our rating.
