GeForce GTX 295 and Radeon RX 590 GME - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 295

Radeon RX 590 GME

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

GT200B

Polaris 20

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2009

March 2020

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

1x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1420 MHz

Core clock speed

576 MHz

-

CUDA cores

480

-

CUDA cores per GPU

240

-

Floating-point performance

2x 596.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

289 Watt

175 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

92.2 billion/sec

204.5

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1792 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

896 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

999 MHz

8 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

223.8 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Standard memory config per GPU

896 MB

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVIHDMI

1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

+

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.1

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR)

128bit

-