GeForce GTX 590 and GeForce GTX 260M SLI - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 590

GeForce GTX 260M SLI

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

G9x (2007−2010)

GPU code name

GF110

NB9E-GTX

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

March 2011

March 2009

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

-

Supplementary power connectors

Two 8-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

607 MHz

550 MHz

CUDA cores

1024

-

Floating-point performance

2x 1,244.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

3,000 million

1508 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

224

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

150 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

97 °C

-

Texture fill rate

77.7 billion/sec

-

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)

2 GB

Memory bus width

768-bit (384-bit per GPU)

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1707 MHz

950 MHz

Memory bandwidth

327.7 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort

-

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

10

CUDA

+

+

OpenCL

1.1

-

OpenGL

4.2

-

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

-