GeForce GTX 590 and Amethyst - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 590
Amethyst
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name
GF110
Amethyst
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
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Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
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SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
607 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2x 1,244.2 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
5,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
365 Watt
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Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
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Texture fill rate
77.7 billion/sec
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
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Memory bus width
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
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Memory clock speed
1707 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
327.7 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
-
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.1
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.170