GeForce GTX 590 and GeForce GT 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce GT 230
GeForce GTX 590
3441
GeForce GT 230
333
GeForce GTX 590
GeForce GT 230
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF110
G94B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
October 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
650 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2x 1,244.2 gflops
156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
48
Power consumption (TDP)
365 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
77.7 billion/sec
15.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
512 MB
Memory bus width
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1707 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
327.7 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
No outputs
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