GeForce GTX 590 and GeForce 7800 GT Dual - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 590
GeForce 7800 GT Dual
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
GF110
G70
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
August 2005
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
607 MHz
400 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2x 1,244.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
302 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
-
Power consumption (TDP)
365 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
77.7 billion/sec
8.000
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
256 MB
Memory bus width
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1707 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
327.7 GB/s
32 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A