GeForce GTX 590 and GeForce GTX 660 Ti - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GeForce GTX 590
3441
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
4547
GeForce GTX 590
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
GF110
GK104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
August 2012
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
Two 6-pin
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
-
980 MHz
Core clock speed
607 MHz
915 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
1344
Floating-point performance
2x 1,244.2 gflops
2,459.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
3,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1344
Power consumption (TDP)
365 Watt
150 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
77.7 billion/sec
102.5 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
2 GB
Memory bus width
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
192-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed
1707 MHz
6.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
327.7 GB/s
144.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
4 displays
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
Internal
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.3
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
3D Vision
-
+