GeForce GTX 590 and GeForce GTX 1660 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce GTX 1660
GeForce GTX 590
3441
GeForce GTX 1660
12040
GeForce GTX 590
GeForce GTX 1660
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
GF110
Turing TU116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
March 2019
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1785 MHz
Core clock speed
607 MHz
1530 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2x 1,244.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
6,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
365 Watt
120 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
77.7 billion/sec
157.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
6 GB
Memory bus width
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1707 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
327.7 GB/s
192.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
7.5
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131