Graphics card overview

GeForce GTX 590

Nvidia

GeForce GTX 590

1536 Mb GDDR5 Released 24 Mar 2011 DESKTOP

Core configuration

GPU	GF110
Architecture	Nvidia_Fermi
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs	512 : 64 : 48
Raytracing Cores	none
Performance	2488.00 GFLOPs

Memory configuration

Memory Size	1536 Mb
Memory Bus Width	384 bit x2
Memory Speed	854 MHz 3416 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth	328.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The GeForce GTX 590 is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 24 Mar 2011. The graphics card houses the GF110 die, based on the Nvidia_Fermi architecture which packs 3,000 million transistors on a 40 nm, 520 mm² die.

GeForce GTX 590 pros and cons

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Specifications

Compared to similar performing cards

	GeForce GTX 590	Radeon R9 290 Compare	Radeon R9 280X Compare	GeForce GTX 760 Compare	GeForce GTX 770 Compare
Shader units	512	2560	2048	1152	1536
ROPs	48	64	32	32	32
Graphics processor	GF110	Hawaii	Tahiti	GK104	GK104
Process size	40 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Memory	1536 Mb GDDR5 (854 MHz 3416 MHz effective)	4096 Mb GDDR5 (1250 MHz 5000 MHz effective)	3072 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz 6000 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1502 MHz 6008 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1753 MHz 7012 MHz effective)
Memory bus width	384 bit x2	512 bit	384 bit	256 bit	256 bit
Memory bandwidth	328.00 Gb/s	320.00 Gb/s	288.00 Gb/s	192.00 Gb/s	224.00 Gb/s
Release date	24 Mar 2011	5 Nov 2013	8 Oct 2013	25 Jun 2013	30 May 2013