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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590: specs and benchmarks

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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 22.14 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

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General info

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

Place in performance rating

154

Value for money (0-100)

37.37

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Code name

GF110

Type

Desktop

Release date

24 March 2011

Launch price (MSRP)

$699

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price now

$184

of 4403.52 (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

1024

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

CUDA cores

1024

Core clock speed

1215 MHz

of 1620 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Transistor count

3,000 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Maximum GPU temperature

97 °C

Texture fill rate

77.7 billion / sec

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

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

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 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

768-bit (384-bit per GPU)

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

1707 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

327.7 GB / s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

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

Video card 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

22.04

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

9167

3DMark Vantage Performance

25720

Passmark

4210

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

6680

Mining hashrates

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

FPS tests

Real world test results of League of Legends on GeForce GTX 590.

Minecraft

2009

Official system requirements

GeForce GTX 590 performance compared to Minecraft official system requirements.

GeForce GTX 590

minimum Radeon HD 2400

recommended Radeon HD 5970

FPS tests

Real world test results of Minecraft on GeForce GTX 590.

Civilization 5

2010

Official system requirements

GeForce GTX 590 performance compared to Civilization 5 official system requirements.

GeForce GTX 590

minimum GeForce 7900 GS

recommended GeForce 9800 GT

FPS tests

Real world test results of Civilization 5 on GeForce GTX 590.

ultra / 1080p

StarCraft 2

2010

Official system requirements

GeForce GTX 590 performance compared to StarCraft 2 official system requirements.

GeForce GTX 590

minimum GeForce 7600 GT

recommended GeForce GTX 650

FPS tests

Real world test results of StarCraft 2 on GeForce GTX 590.

ultra / 1080p

112

World of Warcraft

2005

Official system requirements

GeForce GTX 590 performance compared to World of Warcraft official system requirements.

GeForce GTX 590

minimum HD Graphics 530

recommended GeForce GTX 960

FPS tests

Real world test results of World of Warcraft on GeForce GTX 590.

high / 1024p

126

Relative perfomance

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

101.4 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

100.63 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

100.5 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

99.68 %

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 590 from AMD is Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our rating.