GeForce GTX 590 and GeForce 9800 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce GTX 590
3441
GeForce 9800 GT
492
GeForce GTX 590
GeForce 9800 GT
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF110
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
July 2008
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
607 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
112
Floating-point performance
2x 1,244.2 gflops
336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
112
Power consumption (TDP)
365 Watt
105 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
105 °C
Texture fill rate
77.7 billion/sec
33.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
1 GB
Memory bus width
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1707 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
327.7 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
HDTVDual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
+
+
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
S/PDIF
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A