GeForce GTX 590 and GeForce GT 120 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 590
GeForce GT 120 OEM
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF110
G96C
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
March 2009
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
607 MHz
738 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2x 1,244.2 gflops
117.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
32
Power consumption (TDP)
365 Watt
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
77.7 billion/sec
11.81
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
512 MB
Memory bus width
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1707 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
327.7 GB/s
16.13 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A