Graphics card comparison
GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 590
Nvidia
GeForce GT 1030
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 17 May 2017
DESKTOP
VS
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 590
1536 Mb GDDR5
Released 24 Mar 2011
DESKTOP
Summary
Reasons to consider the GeForce GT 1030
- 335 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 590 .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 590
- Supports PhysX
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 | GeForce GTX 590 |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP108 (GP108-300-A1) | GF110 (GF110-351-A1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 74 mm² | 520 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,800 million | 3,000 million |
| Shaders | 384 | 512 |
| Compute Units | 3 | 16 |
| Core clock | 1228 MHz | 608 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 48 |
| TMUs | 24 | 64 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 | GeForce GTX 590 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | 384 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | 854 MHz
3416 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 1536 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 1030 | GeForce GTX 590 |
|---|
| TDP | 30 watts | 365 watts |
| Release Date | 17 May 2017 | 24 Mar 2011 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GT 103023.49 GP/s
- GeForce GTX 59039.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GT 103035.23 GT/s
- GeForce GTX 59077.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GT 103048.06 GB/s
- GeForce GTX 590328.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GT 10301127.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX 5902488.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better