GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 and GeForce GTX 590 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

GeForce GTX 590

Architecture

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GF114

GF110

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2011

March 2011

Bus support

-

16x PCI-E 2.0

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Two 8-pin

SLI options

-

+

Core clock speed

850 MHz

607 MHz

CUDA cores

-

1024

Floating-point performance

2x 1,305.6 gflops

2x 1,244.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

3,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

365 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

-

97 °C

Texture fill rate

54.40

77.7 billion/sec

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)

Memory bus width

256 Bit

768-bit (384-bit per GPU)

Memory clock speed

4008 MHz

1707 MHz

Memory bandwidth

128.3 GB/s

327.7 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

-

+

HDMI

+

+

Maximum VGA resolution

-

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

-

Internal

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.1

+

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.2

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A