GeForce GTX 590 and GeForce GTX 480 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GTX 590
3441
GeForce GTX 480
4229
GeForce GTX 590
GeForce GTX 480
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GF110
GF100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
December 2010
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
6-pin & 8-pin
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
607 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
480
Floating-point performance
2x 1,244.2 gflops
1,345.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
480
Power consumption (TDP)
365 Watt
295 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
105 °C
Texture fill rate
77.7 billion/sec
42 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
1536 MB
Memory bus width
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1707 MHz
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
Memory bandwidth
327.7 GB/s
177.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Multi monitor support
+
+
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
Internal
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
4.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A